Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records
President Trump fires archivist for U.S. government official Colleen J. Shogan Save and provide access to government records.
Sergio Gor, director of the President’s Office of Personnel, announced that Shogan was fired Friday night. Shogan has been in the job since 2023.
“exist @RealDonaldTrump “We thank Colleen Shogan for their service,” Gore wrote on X.
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This move is not surprising. Mr. Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this month that “we will have a new archivist.”
However, on Thursday, a senior archives administrator official told CBS News that “no news is changing.”
“The archivist looks forward to maintaining a strong working relationship with the president and the first lady,” the official said at the time.
The U.S. archivist who is in charge of the National Archives and Records Administration is often a non-political role and receives little attention. But Mr. Trump has been angry at the agency in the past because it is a key figure in his misconduct against confidential records.
Mr. Trump allegedly accepted dozens of them when he left the office in early 2021. Presidential paperincluding nearly 340 documents with classification marks, to his home in Florida. Mr. Trump is ultimately Convicted of 40 felonyincluding the alleged refusal to hand over some papers. But after Mr. Trump won the election in November, Jack Smith, then special lawyer, was the first to be a specialist. Remove him from the case Due to the Ministry of Justice’s policy, opposition to prosecution of the current president.
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