The New York Times reported on Saturday that former Vice President Mike Pence was in charge of packing up all the White House documents.
His aides made sure all the documents were boxed up. The process was overseen by his chief of staff and his lawyer.
An unnamed official said that the goal was for the vice president to stay in the White House.
Reports of Trump's handling of government documents are not in line with the process.
According to the court records, the FBI investigated the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and recovered 11 boxes of classified records that Trump took with him from the White House. Sonam Sheth reported that some of the boxes were marked as top secret.
The records should have been handed over to the agency after he left office.
Mick Mulvaney said in a CNN interview that there was a system in place to make sure that didn't happen.
He said the staff should get involved. If the president has confidential materials on his desk at the end of a meeting, the staff will make sure that they are put in a proper location before the next meeting.
Mulvaney said that you can't control the president. The president is in charge of what he does. The West Wing has mechanisms in place to make sure the law is followed, documents are preserved, and the classified information is treated like classified information.
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