DOJ says releasing affidavit would harm investigation FBI bolsters security Updates usatoday com story news politics 2022 08 15 trump-fbi-search-updates 10327490002 National Security Archive president raised red flags in 2020 Tom Blanton president of the National Security Archive at George Washington University  raised red flags about the pack-up of presidential material immediately after the election on Nov 13 2020 in a letter to White House Attorney Pat Cipollone He pointed to Trump’s norm-breaking administration which eschewed records of meetings with foreign leaders reprimanded its own attorneys for taking notes during meetings and told the Secret Service to not keep logs of visitors to Mar-a-Lago or other Trump properties “This ongoing pattern of behavior raises a red flag that the records of the Trump presidency will not be properly preserved for the public their rightful owner With the Trump administration drawing to the close it is critical that the American public receive adequate assurances that all the presidential records of this administration will be preserved and transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration by Jan 20 2021 as the law requires ” -- Nick Penzenstadler 1 2 2 2