President-elect Donald Trump vowed to replace the current head of the National Archives amid the agency’s role in a classified documents case that was brought against him.
“We will have a new archivist,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday, without elaborating.
The current U.S. archivist, Colleen Shogan, was nominated by President Joe Biden in August 2022, just days before the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. But she was not confirmed until May of the following year, after a months-long battle over the agency’s role in the documents investigation.
Trump did not provide the name of who could replace Shogan in the role....