'The Department of Justice must act to investigate and to hold Trump accountable for his reckless behavior,' said NoahBookbinder of CREWcrew.
"The Department of Justice must act to investigate and to hold Trump accountable for his reckless behavior."A pair of government watchdog organizations on Tuesday urged the Biden Justice Department to launch an investigation into former President Donald Trump's
habit of tearing up briefings, schedules, memos, and other official records, a likely violation of federal law.to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive noted that"throughout his term in office, President Trump and other White House officials demonstrated a serious disregard for their recordkeeping responsibilities under the Presidential Records Act."
"President Trump's actions," the groups wrote,"appear to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1361, which makes it a crime to willfully injure or commit any depredation against United States property in excess of $1,000, and 18 U.S.C. § 2017, which makes it a crime to willfully destroy or mutilate federal records."
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