Reporting: On April 23, 2024, John Solomon and Steven Richards published “Unsealed docs expose early collaboration between Archives, Biden White House in Trump prosecution” at Just the News. They describe memos unsealed by U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon. They write that on August 30, 2021, Ferriero pressed Trump records representatives about unreturned boxes and possible referrals to Congress, the Department of Justice, and the White House. They write that NARA shared updates with Biden White House and DOJ officials through 2021 and 2022.
This draft did not re-open the unsealed exhibit PDFs. Research rule: treat those email lines as commentary sources unless the exhibit is viewed. So the sentences above are Solomon and Richards’s account. They are not independently re-quoted emails. They are not a finding that Ferriero committed a crime. A later Just the News piece on White House visitor logs describes Ferriero visits that the outlet ties to White House Counsel Dana Remus; that too is reporting.
John Solomon also sued DOJ and NARA over access to declassified Trump-Russia memos after Ferriero’s retirement; acting Archivist Wall is named in later coverage. That lawsuit is not a Ferriero biography and is not treated as one.