Donald Trump released two statements pointing out that the National Archives lost documents from both the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Under Clinton, the Archives lost a hard drive containing large volumes of Clinton administration records. This included personal information on White House staff members and visitors.
The National Archives — a repository of important government documents, including the U.S. Constitution — has lost a computer hard drive containing large volumes of Clinton administration records, including the names, phone numbers and Social Security numbers of White House staff members and visitors.
The National Archives has lost a hard drive containing large volumes of Clinton administration records.
Officials at the Archives say they don’t know how many confidential records are on the hard drive. But congressional aides briefed on the matter say it contains “more than 100,000” Social Security numbers, including one belonging to a daughter of then-Vice President Al Gore. It also contains Secret Service and White House operating procedures, the staffers said they were told.
Under Bush, they lost several sets of tapes that were ordered preserved.
A report by the Federal archivists who collected thousands of White House computer tapes in the waning hours of the Bush Administration indicates that several sets of the tapes, ordered preserved by a Federal judge, have been lost.
Here are Trump’s statements:
