Feb 8, 2022: According to a report by the AFP, former President Donald Trump improperly removed multiple boxes from the White House that were retrieved by the National Archives and Records Administration last month from his Mar-a-Lago residence.

The records contained documents and other items that should have been turned over to the archives agency.

The recovery of the boxes from Trump’s Florida resort has raised new concerns about the lax attitude of the administration in observance of the Presidential Records Act, which protects memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications relating to the president’s official duties.

Trump’s advisers have denied any wrongdoing, saying the boxes contained memorabilia, gifts, letters from world leaders and other correspondence. The items included correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which Trump once described as “letters of love,” as well as a letter by President Barak Obama.

Former US President Donald Trump, once boasted of his relationship with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, telling a West Virginia rally in 2018, “We fell in love. No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters.”

That prompted the media, as well as Trump supporters and opponents alike, to dub the unusual correspondence the Trump-Kim “love letters.”

Authorities responsible for preserving the records has struggled to cope with a president who flouted document retention requirements and frequently ripped up official documents, leaving hundreds of pages taped back together, or some that arrived at the Archives still in pieces.

There were some damaged documents among those turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

This retrieval of documents from Trump’s Florida estate is just the latest example of what records personnel described as chronic difficulties in preserving records in the Trump era — the most challenging since Richard Nixon sought to block disclosure of official records, including White House tapes.

While the law requires that presidents preserve records related to an administration’s activities, the Archives has very limited enforcement capabilities. The Presidential Records Act operates on the basis of a “gentlemen’s agreement,” meaning the records preservation proceeds by mutual agreement with the occupant of the White House, staff and archivists.

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