In a report to be published in the Federal Register next week, the ministry said the president’s executive office had not provided information on gifts Trump and his family received from foreign leaders in 2020. It also said the General Services Administration did not it did submit information about the gifts given to former Vice President Mike Pence and White House staff that year. The State Department said it was looking for missing information from the National Archives and Records Administration and the General Services Administration, but was told the “potentially relevant files” were not available due to access restrictions associated with retirement records. The State Department’s Protocol Office cited the situation in footnotes to a partial list of gifts received by U.S. officials in 2020. The agency publishes such lists annually, in part to protect against potential conflicts of interest. A preview of the 2020 report was posted on the Federal Register website on Friday before it was officially released on Monday. The report notes that the lack of information on gifts could be related to internal omissions, as the protocol bureau neglected to “submit data requests to all reporting services before January 20, 2021” when the Trump administration ended and began the Biden government. However, he also noted that there was a “lack of adequate record keeping of diplomatic gifts” between January 20, 2017, when Trump took office, and his departure from the White House four years later. The State Department report comes as lawmakers begin an investigation into allegations that Trump took boxes of classified material with him to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after he left last year. The National Archives and Archives Service has asked the Ministry of Justice to look into the matter. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising, meanwhile, found a nearly eight-hour gap in Trump’s official White House phone records as the violence unfolded and supporters stormed the building, according to two people. who know the catheter. Lady Gaga dog accused of stealing dog accidentally fired Rocket kills at least 52 at busy Ukrainian train station Regarding the 2020 gifts, the ministry said that “it made efforts to collect the required data from the current valid sources … but confirmed that potentially relevant files are not available in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the State Department in accordance with applicable access rules for retirement records of the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice-President. “ “As a result, the data needed to fully compile a complete list for 2020 is not available,” he said. Trump administration officials’ gift files, such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and former CIA chief Gina Haspel, are included in the 2020 limited edition, as are files on other senior diplomats. Pentagon and the CIA.
