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Feb 13 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
"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"

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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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Feb 18
"That evidence includes a letter that may turn out to be, as a practical matter, the biggest blow Trump has ever suffered, even bigger than his six corporate bankruptcies and two presidential impeachments."
~@gtconway3d

#TrumpInTrouble
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"Mazars [Trump's accounting firm] said that 10 years of Trump’s financial statements, from 2011 to 2020, “should no longer be relied upon,”...

... And then they quit."

#TrumpInTrouble
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"[Trump] may find it all but impossible to find new auditors and tax preparers...

“good luck refinancing your debt when the accountants” — who have just declared a decade of your financials utterly worthless — have “just walked out the door.”"

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Feb 17
"The ping-pong of private Hannity missives was a far cry from the contents of his show, where he continued to amplify the arguments for electoral objections despite his stated fears."

#Jan6
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"A member of the House Freedom Caucus with knowledge of the president’s planning for that day sent a message to Meadows... with an explicit warning."

#Jan6
#Jan6th
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"We are under siege in the cpaitol"

"There’s an armed standoff at the house chamber door"

"We’re all helpless"

#Jan6
#Jan6thInsurrection
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Feb 2
I've been stressing about the possibility of losing power since I have week-old chicks (7 of them) under a heat lamp.

No power, no heat lamp, dead chicks. 😰

So I did an online search for ways to keep chicks alive without a heat lamp and found a couple of suggestions.
The most useful was to build an insulated "hut" for them to huddle under.

So, using some cardboard and an insulated shipping bag, I gave it my best shot.

It has air holes & and a flap so the chicks can get out if they really want to.
Another suggestion was a sort of hot water bottle.

The water in a hot water tank (assuming it's not tankless) will remain hot for a while. So, when the power goes out, immediately fill some plastic containers with hot water and put them in the brooder box with the chicks.
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Feb 1
"Trump was known inside the White House for his unusual and potentially unlawful habit of tearing presidential records into shreds and tossing them on the floor... despite the Presidential Records Act"

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"The National Archives on Monday took the unusual step of confirming the habit, saying in a statement that records turned over from the Trump White House “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump.”"

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"the former president’s infrangible shredding practices apparently continued well into the latter stages of his presidency."

Why would someone develop the habit of shredding their paperwork and continue to do so after being asked to stop?
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Jan 30
"The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages...

Voting laws are intended to reconfigure the composition of today’s electorate; the teaching bans aim to shape the attitudes of tomorrow’s."

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"The school proposals are not only surfacing in more states, but also increasing in their breadth."

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"The singer and activist John Legend previewed another response when he tweeted, “Black parents need to flood these tip lines with complaints about our history being silenced. We are parents too.”"

#education
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Jan 28
The Krause List being used to ban books across the USA was created by Texas Republican State Rep Matt Krause.

The @BookRiot associate editor went through the 850 books on the list and "found some interesting and unsettling things."

#BANNED
#BannedBooks
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"Perhaps the most disturbing trend I saw in this list is the challenging of books that teach students their rights.

Of all the things to teach in school or for kids to have access to, this is one of the most important."

#BANNED #BannedBooks
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"Not only is every book on human sexuality disallowed, from The Baby Tree to teen books about STIs, but also anything that mentions teen pregnancy, including YA novels. About 5% of the books banned have to do with pregnancy."

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