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House Democrats tell the White House to keep Trump's chatbot conversations

Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, the senior Democrats on the Judiciary and Oversight committees, asked the White House on Wednesday to preserve every prompt the president or staff sent to Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity and every answer, saying it "is not optional" under the Presidential Records Act. They cite a Time report that Trump asked a chatbot how Venezuelans would react to Nicolás Maduro's capture and "came away thinking Grok was ingenious."

The White House says it "preserves all required records in accordance with the law." The Justice Department's legal counsel called the records law unconstitutional in April, and the administration is appealing a judge's ruling that it likely is not. As the minority, the two have no subpoena power. SourcesBC

Sources

• BHouse Democrats call on Trump to preserve AI chatbot records (Nextgov/FCW)nextgov.com
• CTrump Used Grok on Venezuela; DOJ Then Called Presidential Records Act Unconstitutional (Tech Times)techtimes.com

This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 30th 2026.