"The journey underscores how defiantly and indiscriminately Trump violated the Presidential Records Act"
#TrumpPapers
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The National Archives contacted Trump about some high profile missing documents last summer.
"But it was not until the end of the year that the boxes were finally readied for collection"
(What happened in that time? Were some documents destroyed?)
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"At one point, Archives officials threatened that if Trump’s team did not voluntarily produce the materials, they would send a letter to Congress or the Justice Department revealing the lack of cooperation"
#TrumpPapers
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"“At first it was unclear what he was going to give back and when,” said one of these people...
Trump was noticeably secretive about the packing process, and top aides and longtime administrative staffers did not see the contents"
#TrumpPapers
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"Trump violated the records law, which requires that the White House preserve all written communication related to a president’s official duties and then turn it over to the National Archives."
#TrumpPapers
#TrumpToiletPapers
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““He would roll his eyes at the rules, so we did, too,” said Stephanie Grisham, the former Trump White House press secretary who has become an outspoken Trump critic since the Jan. 6 insurrection on the US Capitol."
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"That cavalier attitude about the rules extended to Trump’s treatment of documents, which he routinely ripped up and threw away, forcing aides to retrieve them and send them to the White House Office of Records Management to be taped back together"
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"When the Archives sent a tranche of documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of them had been ripped up and taped back together.
And some no longer existed at all"
#TrumpPapers #Jan6thInsurrection
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"when the committee requested certain documents focused on Trump’s campaign to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election results, some of the relevant materials had already been shredded"
#TrumpPapers #Jan6thInsurrection
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"while Trump was president, White House residence staff members from time to time found clumps of paper clogging a toilet, leading them to believe that Trump was flushing documents."
#TrumpToilet
#TrumpToiletPapers
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"Trump was warned by his first two chiefs of staff — Reince Priebus and John F. Kelly — about complying with the records act, as well as by Donald McGahn, his White House counsel.
...Trump seemed to exhibit at least some awareness of the Presidential Records Act"
#TrumpPapers
"Archives officials — suspecting that Trump may have violated laws dealing with the handling of government documents — asked the Justice Department to examine the issue."
#TrumpPapers
#TrumpToiletPapers
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"Trump’s haphazard treatment of documents, including sensitive ones, continued throughout his administration, right up until his frenzied and begrudging departure."
#TrumpPapers
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"Trump arrived at Mar-a-Lago with the array of documents and other items that should have been turned over to the Archives.
In a statement, the Archives said Trump’s representatives have said they are “continuing to search” for documents that belong to the government."
"Archives realized that they had never received certain prominent documents from his White House — some of them totems of the many scandals and controversies that clouded his four years in office."
#TrumpPapers
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"Grisham said she believes that Trump deliberately kept certain keepsakes, regardless of the Presidential Records Act. “He was beyond proud of those Kim Jong Un letters...
He took those letters because he wanted them.”
#TrumpPapers
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"I don’t know of a story since 1978 of a president leaving with this much material,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “I can’t give you someone worse than Trump.”
#TrumpPapers
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"Trump advisers... have asked the Archives to dispute the spate of recent reporting on the myriad ways Trump ignored the Presidential Records Act...
But so far, the Archives has declined."
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