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President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Friday evening that it had rejected the archivist Colleen Shogan in a shocking move.
“At the directions of @RealdonaldTrump, the US archivist was fired tonight,” White House Presidential Secretary Sergio Gole wrote in an X’s post.
Shogan was told Trump wanted to replace her, but she didn’t expect her removal to happen on Friday, and was shocked when she was notified and familiar with the situation. A source said.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) presented a request for comment to the White House.
Nominated for that position by President Joe Biden in 2022, Shogan was the first woman to hold the post as Nara’s principal and chief administrator, and previously Senior Vice President of the David M. Reubenstein Center in White He served as both a director. House Historical Society.
Shogan has been an archivist since 2023, and FBI agents searched Trump’s home in 2022 and were not at the National Archives looking for confidential documents.
The role of the National Archives has been scrutinized by Republicans in recent years as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, incorporating new and well-known documents. I did.
At the time, the archive asked the Justice Department to investigate the handling of Trump’s White House records.
Trump has been critical of the National Archives in the past, and in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt last month, he said that the previous archivist was “a disaster” during Mar Lago Raid’s David Ferrielo. Ta. Please replace the showgun.
“I think we can say we get someone,” he told Hewitt. “Let’s just put it down – yeah, we have a new archivist.”
Last month, Shogan blocked the Biden administration’s move to ratify the amendment of equality rights, citing “established legal, judicial and procedural decisions.” In his first term, the Trump administration petitioned federal courts to abandon lawsuits attempting to codify the era into law.
The archivist also enjoyed a personal connection with first lady Melania Trump and invited her to give a rare public speech on citizenship at the National Archives in 2023.
The two women met when the artisan was at the White House Historical Society during her previous tenure as Melania Trump’s first lady and worked together on many projects.
This story has been updated with additional details.
