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Records show Archives official met with Biden White House counsel day of indictment against Trump
Just the News ^ | 1 May, 2024 | Steven Richards

Posted on 05/02/2024 4:48:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The White House visitor logs show other Nat'l Archives officials visited Biden Administration officials throughout the earliest stages of the probe into President Trump. White House officials met with Nat'l Archives on at least 19 other occasions.

On June 8, 2023, Gary Stern, the General Counsel of the National Archives arrived at the White House for a meeting with Special Counsel to President Biden Richard Sauber. The meeting reportedly took place in the Navy Mess, a “nautical” themed dining room run by the seafaring military branch, according to White House records.

It is not known what Stern and Sauber discussed, but the very same day, the Justice Department filed its indictment against former President Donald Trump alleging he “unlawfully” retained classified documents.

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 (NARA) and the Biden White House regarding the Trump classified documents case.

As Just the News recently reported, Stern began communicating with White House officials as early as May 2021 as he sought to retrieve documents retained by former President Trump. The Archives asserts that Trump improperly retained these documents after his term ended, a belief disputed by Trump’s legal team.

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.

These efforts came at the same time that President Biden’s staff was made aware of the president’s own classified documents problem.

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 early August, records indicate Stern met with then-Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su in the West Wing. The unsealed court records show Stern would ultimately consult with Su in January 2022 about his agency’s efforts to retrieve the classified memos from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, Just the News reported last week.

Su referred Stern to Department of Justice officials, Associate Deputy Attorneys General Emily Loeb and David Newman. It was from this referral that the federal case against the former president was born. Later in 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland would approve an official investigation into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and would appoint Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee the criminal investigation in November.

Previously, Just the News reported that then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ, and the National Archives as early as April 2022, shortly after Trump and his associates voluntarily returned 15 boxes of classified documents and other presidential records to the agency. But now, according to the dates referenced in the court documents, these contacts are known to have started months earlier.

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.

On September 1, Stern circulated a draft referral intended for the Justice Department after documents were not returned to seek the agencies assistance.

“Attached is a draft letter that we could consider sending to the Attorney General about missing Trump records,” Stern wrote in an email. “It focuses only on the paper records that we believe to be missing.”

When he circulated the draft letter internally, Stern told colleagues he had been in contact with “DOJ counsel” about the matter and was continuing to communicate with the White House Counsel’s Office, showing the Biden administration was in the loop about the efforts to repossess Trump’s documents.

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 (PRA).”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: arrestgarland; collusion; dojsedition; electioninterference; garystern; nara; richardsauber; setup; showtrial
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1 posted on 05/02/2024 4:48:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

All of the evidence seems to point to an organized setup.


2 posted on 05/02/2024 4:48:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

RICO.


3 posted on 05/02/2024 4:53:14 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: MtnClimber

President Trump: “Hey, I need to move out of the White House. I have papers I need to pack up. Can you guys at National Archives help me out?”
National Archives: “No. You’re on your own.”

National Archives: “Hey, President Biden. We have some juicy info that might help you put Trump in jail. Want to talk?”
President Biden: “I’m all ears.”


4 posted on 05/02/2024 4:55:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: MtnClimber; bitt; little jeremiah

an OP to frame trump


5 posted on 05/02/2024 4:58:32 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: MtnClimber

At this point those who run things in Washington could care less if we know or don’t know how corrupt they are. It’s obvious.


6 posted on 05/02/2024 4:58:39 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: MtnClimber

Indeed! Given that the National Archives shipped a pallet of documents containing classified materials to Mar a Lago, this meeting is highly suspicious.


7 posted on 05/02/2024 4:59:36 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Yoga was discussed. Or perhaps wedding plans.


8 posted on 05/02/2024 5:06:15 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: MtnClimber

FTA …

“A minion behind them was carrying a white records box,” he recalled. “And I’m like, ‘What the hell is he doing?’” Ferriero said. This observation would eventually spur the request to Trump’s team for the records.

In a question and answer session at UNC Chapel Hill, Ferriero told the audience that “political savvy” is a useful skill, even for navigating supposedly nonpartisan offices. In his previous jobs, which included the direct of the New York Public Libraries, he said he had to determine “who has the power, who controls the purse strings for the public and who you need to be sucking up to to get what you need.”


Talk about a perfect DS “minion”, this Ferriero (former NARA archivist) hack, is one.


9 posted on 05/02/2024 5:11:04 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: MtnClimber
Here's a tidbit. If items have been declassified by default when they were removed to Mar a Lago...when he was still President,

Did you know...that Biden can reclassify EVERYONE of those documents on his say so alone.

10 posted on 05/02/2024 5:21:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

Call Congress
(202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator
Mention state and zip to get connected.

Message: We Americans are concerned that the Biden White House was engaged in conversations with the tax-financed FBI, DOJ, and National Archives in order to manipulate and facilitate access to Biden’s documents for investigators probing President Trump’s handling of his classified documents, despite publicly claiming it had no prior knowledge about Biden’s well-publicized FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

On June 8, 2023, Gary Stern, the General Counsel of the National Archives arrived at the White House for a meeting with Special Counsel to President Biden Richard Sauber according to Biden White House records.

It is not known what Stern and Sauber discussed, but the very same day, the Biden Justice Department filed its indictment against President Trump alleging he “unlawfully” retained classified documents.

The record of the meeting recorded in Biden White House visitor logs shows collusion——the close cooperation between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Biden White House regarding the bogus Trump classified documents case.

The govt principals mentioned here should step down immediately. They apparently believe Americans who pay their salary are too stupid to determine the facts.

Americans cannot tolerate self-serving govt officials with an utter contempt for its citizens.


11 posted on 05/02/2024 5:22:21 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: MtnClimber

We’ve known the Archives were dirty since Berger Pants stole documents,


12 posted on 05/02/2024 5:22:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MtnClimber

History will NOT be kind to Biden and the democrat scum who prop him up.


13 posted on 05/02/2024 5:25:06 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Nancy Pelosi and President Sniffer need to condemn the Hamas wing of the democrat party.)
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To: Sacajaweau

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-does-the-governments-classification-system-work/


14 posted on 05/02/2024 5:29:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MtnClimber

Every one of these colluding criminals needs to experience Righteous Justice.


15 posted on 05/02/2024 5:56:58 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: MtnClimber

The judge has had access to these documents since she ultimately unsealed them. Its obvious this was prosecutorial entrapment and evolved into misconduct. So why hasn’t she thrown out the case?


16 posted on 05/02/2024 6:03:52 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: MtnClimber

“All of the evidence seems to point to an organized setup.”

What is Conspiracy

A conspiracy is an agreement or plan, made between two or more people, to engage in an illegal act, to obtain an unlawful objective, or to deprive another person of his legal rights. A conspiracy may be engaged in to move a plan forward, each person involved aware of his or her part. It is not necessary for each person involved in a conspiracy to engage in – or even be aware of – each stage or act involved in gaining the objective.

The criminal act of conspiracy may be charged if:

1. Legal means are used to accomplish an illegal result; or
2. Illegal means are used to accomplish a legal result.


17 posted on 05/02/2024 6:12:47 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MtnClimber

Presidential records “unlawfully removed from the U.S. Government custody.

That covers Biden’s actions and the FBI, DOJ did what besides give a wink?.

Fish stories ensue


18 posted on 05/02/2024 6:46:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: packagingguy
That is the infuriating thing. They seem to pointedly break the law, and don't even break a sweat if it is made public.

As if they know nothing will happen to them...

19 posted on 05/02/2024 6:50:43 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: MtnClimber

What a coinkydink....


20 posted on 05/02/2024 8:33:06 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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