Trump took letters from Obama and Kim Jong Un when he left the White House


donald trump he took letters from the former president Barack Obama and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when he left the White Houseas announced on Monday by the National Archiveswho had to go look for them at their residence in Florida.

At the end of their term, the presidents of U.S must send all their emailsletters and other working documents to National Archives for its preservation.

But the Republican billionaire decided to take several boxes to his residence in Mar-a-Lago, in Florida.

In them were, among other things, gifts from foreign leaders, a letter left by his predecessor Barack Obama and others written by Kim Jong Un.

donald trumpthe first sitting US president to have met a member of the Kim dynasty, had an epistolary relationship with the North Korean leader.

“He wrote me beautiful letters, they are magnificent letters. We have fallen in love,” the president told supporters in September 2018.

But in mid-January, the National Archives “arranged for the repatriation of 15 boxes containing presidential documents“from Donald Trump’s property in Florida to Washington, the files reported in a statement sent to AFP.

“These documents should have been sent to the Archives by the White House at the end of the Trump administration, in January 2021,” they noted.

But some documents have not yet been recovered. According to the files, “representatives of the former president continue to search for presidential records.”

Last week, the National Archives revealed that the former president had a habit of tearing up some of his work documents, even though it is prohibited.

“Among the presidential documents received by the National Archives there were paper documents that former President Trump had torn up,” they told AFP.

“White House records management officials” had “taped together” some of the sheets, they added.



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