Pat A. Cipollone and Patrick F. Philbin, the top White House lawyers, were interviewed by the FBI following the search of the former US resident’s mansion in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. According to information revealed by The New York Times, the two lawyers are the most important people who worked for trump and that, therefore, they will be able to help the authorities in the investigation of the boxes of confidential documents allegedly diverted by Trump to his residence in Florida.
It is not known when Pat A. Cipollone was heard from, but according to two people connected to the case, Patrick F. Philbin was heard in the spring at a time when investigators were beginning to reach out to people in Trump’s circle to find out how 15 boxes of documents ended up at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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Cipollone and Philbin were the Trump representatives at the National Archives and the Document Administration, an independent agency that protects and documents government and historical records. Both were appointed to office shortly before the end of the president’s termin January 2021.
Philbin was, in fact, the person contacted by National Archives officials who realized that White House documents from the Trump administration were missing. According to two sources to The New York Times, the lawyers have tried to help this agency recover the material, but Trump has repeatedly resisted his requests. “It’s not theirs, it’s mine”Trump allegedly told his lawyers, referring to the documents.
Although the scope of the investigation was not initially said, it was later revealed that Trump did not return any sensitive documentation when he left the White House in 2020: your the documents will be related to nuclear weapons and may endanger US national security.
Source: Observadora
