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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,348 posts)
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 03:13 PM Feb 2022

'We Had No Rules' In Trump Administration, Former Official Says Of Shredding Scandal

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham is not the least bit surprised about reports that Donald Trump shredded many official documents and removed others to his home when he left office in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act.

“I wasn’t surprised when I saw the report,” Grisham told CNN on Friday, referring to an initial story in The Washington Post. “I think that what’s important is this is another example of a White House and an administration that just — we had no rules. We followed no rules.”

Grisham also noted that the former president is a “very, very paranoid man.” She surmised that this fed into Trump’s almost obsessive destruction of documents and confirmed the Post’s reporting that “he always tore everything up.”

The former press secretary recalled being on a flight with Trump to the Middle East and watching him going through boxes. He put some papers in folders, signed others — and ripped up the rest, she said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/had-no-rules-trump-administration-021059025.html

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'We Had No Rules' In Trump Administration, Former Official Says Of Shredding Scandal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
POTUS rules are just a voluntary honor system. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #1
He is such a freak PatSeg Feb 2022 #2
Yes - because he was going to be prez for life lame54 Feb 2022 #3
Yeah and the fact that PatSeg Feb 2022 #4
"I know because I did nothing for months and got paid for it!" struggle4progress Feb 2022 #5

Irish_Dem

(82,292 posts)
1. POTUS rules are just a voluntary honor system.
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 05:06 PM
Feb 2022

We expect the person in the WH to follow the rules and the law.

PatSeg

(53,523 posts)
4. Yeah and the fact that
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 05:15 PM
Feb 2022

he rarely thought past the moment. We've seen him shift gears in one sentence.

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