Trump improperly took documents
Among those documents were letters from former President Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
This Monday the newspaper The Washington Post reported that former US President Donald Trump, once his term ended, improperly took some boxes with some documents and articles from the White House.
Among those documents were letters from former President Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. It should be noted that last January the US National Archives and Records Administration was able to recover these boxes at the former president's residence in Mar-A-Lago (Florida).
Trump advisers told the American newspaper, on condition of anonymity, that the former president did not act maliciously, but rather took those boxes because they contained gifts, letters from world leaders and other types of correspondence.
However, it is a rule for US leaders when they leave power, to deliver to the National Archives all communication used under their management for its conservation, whether they are emails, letters, notes, among others.
The Presidential Records Act, enacted in 1978, is the law that governs presidential administration and requires leaders to preserve all presidential records.
So far, many former presidents have broken this law, to a greater or lesser degree, but the Republican billionaire has reportedly gone so far as to tear up various working papers, even though it's prohibited.
The law contemplates sentences of up to 3 years in prison for this type of infraction, but it will not be easy to prove this fact, so it is doubtful that there will be consequences for Trump.
It should be noted that Donald Trump is the first acting president of the United States who has been able to meet a member of the Kim dynasty and stressed that they had good relations, to the point of qualifying them as "love letters", when he received said communications from the North Korean leader.
"He wrote me beautiful letters, they are magnificent letters. We have fallen in love," then-President Trump told supporters in September 2018.
In the same way, analysts consulted by the American newspaper state that these actions may represent a threat to national security, since among the destroyed documents there could be information that future administrations should know.
In addition, some of those torn and reconstructed documents were delivered to the House committee that is in charge of investigating the January 2021 assault on the Capitol.