The State Department quoted missing data from the White House as a complete and accurate account of gifts presented by foreign governments to former President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials during the last years of Trump’s term. Say you can’t put it together.

In a report released next week in the Federal Register, the Executive Office said it did not provide information about the gifts Trump and his family received from foreign leaders in 2020. Submit information about the gifts given to former Vice President Mike Pence and White House staff that year.

The State Department has asked the National Archives and Records Administration and the General Services Department for missing information, but is said to be unable to use “potentially related records” due to access restrictions associated with obsolete records. rice field.

The State Department’s Protocol Office reported the situation in a footnote to a list of some of the gifts received by US authorities in 2020. The State Department publishes such a list annually to prevent potential conflicts of interest. A preview of the 2020 report was posted on the Federal Register website on Friday prior to its official release on Monday.

The report was given because the Protocol Office failed to “submit data requests to all reporting agencies before January 20, 2021” when the Trump administration ended and the Biden administration began. It states that the lack of product information may be related to internal surveillance. However, he also noted that there was a “lack of proper records management of diplomatic gifts” between January 20, 2017, when Trump took office, and his departure to the White House four years later.

The State Department report comes when the House of Representatives begins the investigation. Report that Trump has taken a box of classified materials After leaving the office last year, I went with him to Mar-a-Lago’s residence in Florida. The National Archives and Records Administration has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the problem.

Meanwhile, the House Committee investigating the January 6 riots at the Capitol said: Almost 8 hours gap in White House official record According to two people familiar with the investigation, Trump’s phone when violence unfolded and his supporters raided the building.

Regarding gifts for 2020, the ministry said, “We have attempted to collect the necessary data from current authoritative sources, but under applicable access records that may be relevant to the State Department’s Protocol Secretary are not available. I confirmed that. ” Regulations on the retirement records of the Executive Office of the President and the Executive Office of the Vice President. “

“As a result, we don’t have the data needed to fully edit the complete list for 2020,” he said.

Records of gifts to Trump administration officials such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel are similar to those of other senior diplomats, the Pentagon, and CIA officials. Included in the Limited 2020 Report.