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The Trump admin was illegally destroying sensitive White House documents

The law says all documents a president touches must be preserved. Many of these documents were recovered and are being pieced back together, so it will be interesting to see what they were trying to hide. Many documents will never be recovered.

White House documents – from schedules to sensitive memos – were regularly ripped into quarters and tossed into trash bins or on the floor of Air Force One, or stuffed into "burn bags" to be incinerated at the Pentagon, only for aides to sort through the contents to determine which bits needed to be preserved under federal law, the newspaper reported

Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must maintain all documents touched by the president to be preserved by the National Archives and Records Administration.

The former president's reportedly relentless habit of destroying sensitive documents was clearly in violation of the law, according to Courtney Chartier, president of the Society of American Archivists.

She told the newspaper: "There is no ignorance of these laws. There are White House manuals about the maintenance of these records."

To avoid such scrutiny, aides from either the Office of the Staff Secretary or the Oval Office Operations would clean up piles of discarded documents once the former president left the room, while staff from the White House Office of Records Management would be responsible for "jigsawing" the pieces together, using clear tape, according to The Post.

Documents recently obtained by the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol received Trump-era White House documents that had to be taped together after previous attempts to destroy them.

The National Archives confirmed that documents the agency received "included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump."

Other documents from the White House submitted to the agency had not been reconstructed at all, according to the Archives.

The Archives handed more than 750 pages of requested documents to the committee last month.

It is unclear how many Trump-era documents were lost or permanently destroyed, though one source told The Post that there could be hundreds.

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Were his admins interns under Hillary's offices?

Ding Dong! 🤡🌎

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But Hillary's emails!

Re: The Trump admin was illegally destroying sensitive White House documents

Lock Him Up!

Without strife, your victory has no meaning.
Without strife, you do not advance.
Without strife, there is only stagnation.

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He will never be locked up but I sure wish he could be!

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Never say Never.

Without strife, your victory has no meaning.
Without strife, you do not advance.
Without strife, there is only stagnation.

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If they are never going to lock up Dumbya for his war crimes then they will never lock up a US President no matter how despicable he is.

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Will Joe and Hunter Biden ever be deservedly locked up for graft?

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Graft?

Get off smack.

Without strife, your victory has no meaning.
Without strife, you do not advance.
Without strife, there is only stagnation.

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To this point,

But I agree. They should lock them all up. They are above the law and it's disgusting.

Without strife, your victory has no meaning.
Without strife, you do not advance.
Without strife, there is only stagnation.

Re: The Trump admin was illegally destroying sensitive White House documents

Since when haven’t top elitists been above the law? It’s designed to protect them, not you.

Norman! What did you put in my tea?

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The Law lies to you and states they are not but it's all hypocrite which is why we shouldnt go by the government and break all the laws!

Without strife, your victory has no meaning.
Without strife, you do not advance.
Without strife, there is only stagnation.

Re: The Trump admin was illegally destroying sensitive White House documents

Like Hilary’s dubious emails?

Norman! What did you put in my tea?
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