Trump Routinely Destroys Documents: A Crime

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Trump Routinely Destroys Documents: A Crime

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You know, that huge crime Hillary was supposed to be guilty of. The crime that justified so much outrage and a mandate to elect someone other than Hillary.

Funny how the Right Wing Media isn't even reporting on this. Well, not really, since they don't give a rat's ass about this so long as its a Republican doing it.

Trump routinely rips up papers that need to be preserved

WASHINGTON – They never thought they’d be piecing the presidency together.

Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr. admitted to Politico their Trump administration jobs were to use Scotch tape to repair papers that President Trump destroyed.

The trained records management analysts made more than $60,000 a year to preserve presidential documents for the National Archives before they were abruptly fired earlier this year.

But the career professionals say their jobs changed when Trump came to the White House because the new commander-in-chief routinely rips up documents that need to be preserved.

Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must hold onto presidential records for safekeeping and historical purposes.

But staff had a hard time convincing Trump to ditch the habit of ripping up papers when he was finished and tossing the confetti-like pieces into the trash and on the floor.

So staff got into the habit of collecting the discarded, hand-shredded papers and sending them next door to the Old Executive Office Building, where career staff had to tape them back together, “like a jigsaw puzzle,” Lartey said.

The shredded works included newspaper clippings that Trump marked up, memos and letters, including one from New York Sen. Chuck Schumer.

“I had a letter from Schumer — he tore it up,” Lartey said. “It was the craziest thing ever. He ripped papers into tiny pieces.”

The men said they had never been assigned such a task in their years of government service. They eventually were terminated from their jobs without explanation, Politico reported, and they are seeking an explanation why.

The former employees revealed their odd job duties in an interview about their dismissals.

“We had to endure this under the Trump administration,” Young said. “I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’ We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”
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Yeah, I read this story and....WTF!!!!

The leader of the Free World cannot be taught to NOT rip up paper? Maybe that's something they didn't teach at the Wharton School of Kindergarten.
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When your mind is addled with criminal intent, destroying evidence is second nature.
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Seriously. Taxpayers are paying people $60,000 per year to do nothing but scotch tape documents the President doesn't have the self-discipline not to destroy. Let that sink in for a second. This is the party of fiscal conservatism, right? And this is the same party that had conniption fits over Hillary supposedly "destroying government records." Those records she destroyed likely amounted to personal emails she unwittingly used on an unsecured server. But Trump is intentionally destroying original hard copy documents that couldn't possibly be mistaken for anything other than federally protected government documents. And he was warned not to do this over a year ago, and yet he does it anyway because he's a stupid old fart that has no self-control. Where are the legal repercussions? Nowhere. Why? Because Congress is run by Republicans who never cared about the law.
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So, you’re saying he isn’t paper trained?
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It is understandable. Sometimes when people are losing control of their mental faculties they fly into an uncontrollable rage at the slightest provocation.

I think angry late-night Twitter posting is a 3rd stage symptom for this progressive deterioration. Tearing documents into tiny pieces denotes a fugue state in which the identity of an electronic paper shredder is assumed. The preferred treatment is to be wrapped in wet towels and placed in a lukewarm bathtub.

Just watch out for Trump telling you his new name is Donatien Alphonse François and that he is the advance man there to proclaim the Coming of the Donald.
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Hawkeye wrote:This is the party of fiscal conservatism, right?

“F”, no. They are the party who pretends to be the party of fiscal conservatism whenever a Democrat is in the White House.

Which is just another way of saying the plain truth, the GOP is the party of BS and hypocrisy.
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Hawkeye wrote:And this is the same party that had conniption fits over Hillary supposedly "destroying government records." Those records she destroyed likely amounted to personal emails she unwittingly used on an unsecured server. But Trump is intentionally destroying original hard copy documents that couldn't possibly be mistaken for anything other than federally protected government documents.

Lol. I don’t think that there’s anything left from the list of Horrible Offenses supposedly committed by Hillary Clinton, Obama, or any other Dem notable on the Fox News Hate List that Trump has not himself committed by now in a grander and more egregious fashion. It’s why folks like subs have little left to prattle on about with regard to their old bogeymen and now spend all of their time playing defense for our Dear Leader.

Because Congress is run by Republicans who never cared about the law.

Well they care about it, but only so long as it can be spun into fake controversies by the Fox and Friends bunch. ; )
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