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Dialuna 3 OctOber 2022

Archives: Records from Trump WH staffers remain missing

(AP) — The National Ar- The agency says that while it ments as property of the U.S.
chives and Records Ad- has been able to obtain these government. The request is
ministration informed records from some former the latest development in a
lawmakers that a number officials, a number remain monthslong back-and-forth
of electronic communica- outstanding. The Justice De- between the agency and the
tions from Trump White partment has already pursued committee, which has been
House staffers remain records from one former investigating Trump’s han-
missing, nearly two years Trump official, Peter Navar- dling of records.
since the administration ro, who prosecutors accused
was required to turn them of using at least one “non- The letter on Friday also
over. official” email account — a comes nearly two months
ProtonMail account — to after the FBI recovered
The nation’s record-keeping send and receive emails while more than 100 documents
agency, in a letter Friday to he worked as the president’s with classified markings and
the House Committee on trade adviser. more than 10,000 other gov-
Oversight and Reform, said ernment documents from
that despite an ongoing ef- Oversight Chairwoman Car- Donald Trump’s White The legal action in August Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
fort by staff, electronic com- olyn Maloney, D-N.Y. House used non-official elec- came just weeks after Na- Lawyers for Trump had pro-
munications between certain tronic messaging accounts varro was indicted on crimi- vided a sworn certification
unidentified White House The letter went on to specify throughout his four years in nal charges after refusing to that all government records
officials were still not in their that the National Archives office. The Presidential Re- cooperate with a congressio- had been returned.
custody. would consult with the Jus- cords Act, which says that nal investigation into the Jan. Maloney and other Demo-
“While there is no easy way tice Department about how such records are government 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. cratic lawmakers on the panel
to establish absolute account- to move forward and recover property and must be pre- Capitol. have been seeking a briefing
ability, we do know that we “the records unlawfully re- served, requires staff to copy The House committee has from the National Archives,
do not have custody of ev- moved.” or forward those messages jurisdiction over the Presi- but haven’t received one due
erything we should,” Debra into their official electronic dential Records Act, a 1978 to the Justice Department’s
Steidel Wall, the acting U.S. It has been widely reported messaging accounts. law that requires the preser- ongoing criminal investiga-
archivist, wrote in a letter to that officials in President vation of White House docu- tion into the matter.

Florida deaths rise to 47 amid struggle to recover from Ian

(AP) — Rescuers evacu- from a peak of 2.67 million.
ated stunned survivors
on a large barrier island At least 54 people were con-
cut off by Hurricane Ian firmed dead: 47 in Florida,
and Florida’s death toll four in North Carolina and
climbed sharply, as hun- three in Cuba. The weakened
dreds of thousands of storm had drifted north on
people were still swelter- Sunday and was expected to
ing without power days dump rain on parts of Virgin-
after the monster storm ia, West Virginia, Maryland
rampaged from the state’s and southern Pennsylvania,
southwestern coast up to according to the National
the Carolinas. Hurricane Center, which has
warned of the potential for
Florida, with nearly four flash flooding.
dozen reported dead, was hit
hardest by the Category 4 More than 1,000 people were
hurricane, one of the stron- rescued from flooded areas
gest to make landfall in the along Florida’s southwestern
United States. Flooded road- coast alone, Daniel Hokan-
ways and washed-out bridges son, a four-star general and
to barrier islands left many head of the National Guard,
people isolated, amid lim- told The Associated Press residents if they wanted to be drop significantly for days, downed trees and power
ited cellphone service and a while airborne to Florida. evacuated. National Weather Service lines. Two of the four deaths
lack of basic amenities such meteorologist Tyler Fleming in the state were from storm-
as water, electricity and the In Washington, the White Some flew out by helicop- said. related vehicle crashes, and
internet. House announced that Presi- ter, and people described the the others involved a man
dent Joe Biden and first lady horror of being trapped in Elsewhere, South Carolina’s who drowned when his
Florida Gov. Ron DeSan- Jill Biden would travel to their homes as water kept ris- Pawleys Island, a beach com- truck plunged into a swamp
tis said Saturday that mul- Florida on Wednesday. But ing. munity roughly 75 miles (115 and another killed by carbon
tibillionaire businessman a brief statement did not kilometers) up the coast from monoxide poisoning from a
Elon Musk was providing release any details of the River flooding posed a major Charleston, was also hit hard. generator in a garage.
some 120 Starlink satellites planned visit. challenge at times to rescue Power remained knocked out
to “help bridge some of the and supply delivery efforts. to at least half the island Sat- At Port Sanibel Marina in
communication issues.” Star- The bridge to Pine Island, The Myakka River washed urday. Fort Myers, Florida, the
link, a satellite-based internet the largest barrier island off over a stretch of Interstate storm surge pushed several
system created by Musk’s Florida’s Gulf Coast, was 75, forcing a traffic-snarling Eddie Wilder, who has been boats and a dock onshore.
SpaceX, will provide high- destroyed by the storm, highway closure for a while coming to Pawleys Island for Charter captain Ryan Kane
speed connectivity. leaving it accessible only by before officials said later more than six decades, said it said his vessel was so badly
boat or air. The volunteer Saturday that it could be re- was “insane” to see waves as damaged that he was un-
Florida utilities were working group Medic Corps, which opened. high as 25 feet (7.6 meters) able to use it to help rescue
to restore power. As of Sun- responds to natural disas- wash away a landmark pier people, and now it will be a
day morning, nearly 850,000 ters worldwide with pilots, While swollen rivers have near his home. long time before he can take
homes and businesses were paramedics and doctors, crested or are near cresting, clients fishing again.
still without electricity, down went door-to-door asking the levels aren’t expected to In North Carolina, the storm