Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who is currently under subpoena to turn over records relating to the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, has informed the National Archives that he likely failed to turn over some pertinent presidential records to the Archives when Donald Trump left office, Politico reports.
“[The National Archives and Records Administration] is working with counsel to Mark Meadows to obtain any Presidential records that were not properly copied or forwarded into his official account,” a NARA spokesperson said in a statement to Politico.
The records in question are reportedly phone records, emails and text messages that were on his personal phone and personal accounts. Meadows has claimed to the J6 committee that some of his personal communications are covered under Trump’s executive privilege claim, leading some members of the committee to question whether Meadows turned those records over to the National Archives, as is required by the Presidential Records Act.
“Mr. Meadows again, he’s turned over documents that are extremely important and relevant to the investigation that are not privileged,” panel vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Wednesday evening in a brief interview. “And those texts and emails from his private email account, his personal cell phone, those belong in the National Archives and so the committee is also very interested in questioning him about that.”