The House Oversight Committee sent another letter on Monday to acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney requesting to know what happened to a series of interpreter notes transcribed during President Trump’s private meeting last year with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Trump seized personally to keep them from view, The Washington Post reported.
The panel had joined two other Democratic-led committees in February demanding to know about the documents, but the White House has refused to say.
In Monday’s letter, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings wrote that he wants to know "why the White House has failed to answer the questions raised in a letter I sent more than three months ago seeking information about troubling reports that President Donald Trump may have violated the Presidential Records Act by confiscating and destroying documents to keep secret the details of his meetings" with Putin, CNN reported.
“The White House has disregarded these legitimate congressional inquiries and dissembled about basic facts, Cummings wrote. “These actions do not serve the interests of the American people, and they obstruct and frustrate the committee’s review.”
The letter comes just a few days before Trump is scheduled to meet with Putin at the G-20 summit in Japan.
Cummings has set a deadline of July 8 for the White House records manager “or another official competent to address these issues” to sit with the committee for a transcribed interview, according to Politico.
The Washington Post noted that the inability to access federal records that must be preserved under record-keeping is a break from previous presidencies.
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