National Archives Records Sent to Jan. 6 Committee Arrived Ripped Up by Trump

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/national-archives-records-sent-to-jan-6-committee-arrived-ripped-up-by-trump?ref=home

National Archives Records Sent to Jan. 6 Committee Arrived Ripped Up by Trump
PUZZLING
AJ McDougall
Breaking News Intern
Published Jan. 31, 2022 7:40PM ET

The National Archives said Monday that some of the Trump administration records turned over to the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol last month had been reconstructed after being “torn up” by the former president. Donald Trump apparently continued to rip up his presidential papers, a habit in potential breach of the Presidential Records Act, well into the final days of his term. To comply with the law, Politico first reported in 2018, aides were forced to painstakingly scotch-tape the records back together. In a statement to The Washington Post, the National Archives confirmed that the trove of Trump White House documents sent to the committee “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump.” The archival agency continued that “White House records management officials during the Trump Administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records.” More than 700 pages were turned over, but it is not known how many, or which, were shredded by Trump.

[orleans]

1. no kidding: PUKE!

what a pissey fucking idiot vindictive ugly as fuck piece of shit douchebag

[Mad_Machine76]

2. Maybe those rumors by Omarosa were true

Wonder if he actually ate some docs too?

[lagomorph777]

3. Also stained with baby food and scribbled on with crayon.

[Solly Mack]

5. There exist people whose only job is document reconstruction.

That's it. That's all they do. Reconstruct documents that have been shredded or "torn up".

Trump's a petty little idiot.

You would think a former president would know these things. But we are talking about Trump, so...

[scarytomcat]

6. Why didn't staff make copies and give those to him to tear up?

Plan ahead?

[babylonsister]

7. Makes too much sense. Maybe

these docs needed a signature?