Secret Service denies having 'visitor logs' for Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida

By ALEXANDER MALLIN • Oct 5, 2017, 1:43 PM ET

The U.S. Secret Service has denied being in possession of any records of the visitors who may have had access to President Donald Trump during his winter visits to his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida.

The agency responded to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Wednesday demanding it release the full logs of visitors who accessed the resort, saying "there is no system for keeping track of presidential visitors at Mar-a-Lago, as there is at the White House Complex."

After a search, Special Agent Kim Campbell told a federal court, the Secret Service found that "there is no grouping, listing, or set of records that would reflect presidential visitors to Mar-a-Lago."

The court filing is the latest development in a suit earlier this year by a group of transparency groups: the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the National Security Archive and Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute.

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