The former president and his allies have given often conflicting defenses of his retention of classified documents, without addressing why he had kept them.
Author: Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman
Service Service Asked to Stop Investigating Jan. 6 Texts Amid Criminal Inquiry
The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general told the Secret Service to halt its internal investigation into how phone records from around Jan. 6 were purged.
Secret Service Says Some Missing Jan. 6 Texts Are Unlikely to Be Recovered
The House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol had subpoenaed text messages from the agents’ phones and other materials.
Heated Debate Erupts Over What Happened Inside Trump’s Vehicle on Jan. 6
Explosive testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, has raised questions about President Donald J. Trump’s actions on the day of the Capitol riot.