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Feb 13, 2022 • 18 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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"The journey underscores how defiantly and indiscriminately Trump violated the Presidential Records Act"

#TrumpPapers
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
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"

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"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." Image
"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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"A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election"

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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"Donald Trump on Friday issued what can only be described as a threat against Mitch McConnell, declaring that the Senate minority leader’s support for bipartisan bills amounts to a “DEATH WISH.”"

News orgs fail to ask GOP pols about this threat by Trump.

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"Alas, there is little sign that mainstream outlets have dropped their addiction to false equivalence and willful, moral blindness."
~@JRubinBlogger

#Journalism
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"What should reporters be doing?

Let’s start with 5 basic rules.

First, they cannot leave these exchanges for the end of an interview, when the guest can filibuster until the commercial break. Do it upfront, and don’t allow them to move on"

#journalism
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"During his 4 years in office, Trump never strictly followed the rules & customs for handling sensitive government documents...

Documents that would ordinarily be kept under lock & key mingled with piles of newspaper articles in Trump’s living quarters"

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"Aides also found other ways to circumvent Trump’s “sticky fingers,” as one put it."

Donald "sticky fingers" Trump

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"In the absence of higher authority backing them up, personnel in the staff secretary’s office could not be expected to remove documents from the president’s possession...

“They would have gotten their heads cut off by the president if they tried to take things from him.” Image
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"Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise."

#RussianArmy
#RussiaInvadedUkraine
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"Filatyev was evacuated after being wounded.

Over the next 5 weeks, deeply troubled by the devastation caused by ... Putin’s bloody invasion, he wrote down his recollections in hopes that telling his country the truth about the war could help stop it."

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"His damning 141-page journal... describes an army in disarray: commanders clueless & terrified, equipment old & rusty, troops pillaging occupied areas in search of food because of a lack of provisions, morale plummeting as the campaign stalled."

#Россия
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"The searing takeaway was not [KKK klansman David] Duke himself, but nearly 700,000 Louisianans who, knowing what he stood for, voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
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"On Election Day 2016, nearly 63 million Americans voted for Trump, giving him more than 300 electoral votes and the White House.
The takeaway?
They, too, knew where he stood and voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
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"Four years later, the impeached, scandal-scarred president went before the American people once again.

By then, Trump was known all too well.

In his losing bid for reelection, Trump attracted 74.2 million votes."
[HE STILL LOST.]

#Racism #USA
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The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."

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The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."

#ISLtheory
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The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."

#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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