The record of the meeting, obtained from the Biden White House visitor logs is the latest evidence showing the close cooperation between the National Archives and Records Administration and the Biden White House regarding the Trump classified documents case.
Last week, newly unsealed court documents showed that beginning in 2021, the Biden White House coordinated closely with Archives officials, presumably to ratchet up pressure on Trump to return classified documents and coordinated with Justice Department officials to draft a criminal referral.
According to the visitor logs, Stern also met with White House officials on at least 19 other occasions from 2021 to 2023 as his agency sought the documents retained by Trump, though only a handful of meetings were with the White House Counsel's office.
In Just the News's previous reporting, documents showed the Biden White House was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ, and National Archives to facilitate access to the documents for investigators probing the former president's handling of classified documents, despite publicly claiming it had no prior knowledge about the well-publicized FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago.
The draft letter urged the Attorney General to assist NARA in recovering presidential records "Unlawfully removed from the U.S. Government custody or possibly destroyed in violation of the Presidential Records Act." File Case 9.23-cr-80101-AMC Document 469-1.pdf The following day, according to White House records, Stern again visited the White House and met with then-White House Counsel Dana Remus in the West Wing, likely with then-National Archivist David Ferriero, who is recorded visiting Remus on the same day.
Based on a letter from Remus to Ferriero released on Oct. 8, 2021 by the White House, that meeting appears to have covered the House Jan. 6 Select Committee's efforts to obtain documents from President Trump's term in office.
Famously, Ferriero described how he watched the media coverage of President Biden's inauguration and saw something that bothered him, President Trump and his wife Melania being followed by a "Minion" carrying white boxes out of the White House.
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