The General Service Administration secretly gave President Donald Trump's transition team records to then-special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI in 2017, a report by two Senate committees says.
According to the memorandum, the records would be regarded as the private property of the transition team and the GSA would not retain those records at the conclusion of the transition.
The majority staff report released on Friday by Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Finance Committee shows GSA officials proactively contacted the FBI to ask if they should preserve Trump transition team records on Feb. 15, 2017, after Michael Flynn resigned as Trump's national security adviser.
The agency then decided to preserve all of the Trump transition team's records after the FBI requested them to preserve records associated with Flynn.
The GSA officials' offer to the FBI to preserve the Trump transition team's records came after the removal process of the records had begun on Jan. 26, 2017, according to the terms of the memorandum.
The Mueller team did not issue a subpoena or search warrant and the GSA didn't afford the transition team an opportunity to review those records.
The staff report says the newly discovered GSA's breaching of the memorandum of understanding with the Trump transition team is "Another example of the disparate treatment the Trump campaign and administration received from the federal bureaucracy."
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Trump Transition Team Records Were Secretly Given to FBI and Mueller: Senate Committees Report
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