Meet Trump’s cast of record keepers, who have taken on significance amid Mar-a-Lago probe
- Trump White House lawyers Don McGahn and Pat Cipollone have been in charge of the records at times.
- Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, others were designated the day before Trump left office.
- The job typically doesn’t make headlines, but the records probe at Mar-a-Lago has drawn spotlight.
White House personnel who oversee the handling of presidential records and classified documents typically don’t generate news headlines.
The job entails ensuring White House staffers don’t take presidential records when they leave, and coordinating document submissions with National Archives officials.
But former President Donald Trump’s present and former record keepers are in a national public spotlight now that a Department of Justice investigation found classified records in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion roughly a year and a half after he left office, and months after his attorneys assured investigators the documents had been handed over.