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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's filing system: Tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved
Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back togetherThe president's unofficial 'filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
@JoyAnnReid
"White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him" both men were fired.
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@anniekarni
Trump has a habit of ripping up all of his paper -- his own "filing system" of sorts. Officials working in records management spend their days taping them back together to avoid violating Presidential Records Act
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Trump's filing system: Tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2018
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FirstLight
(13,362 posts)1. AYFKM????
If THIS isn't a sign of a criminal, I don't know what is...
And the article is unclear to me...If the people who were taping things together are canned, is nobody doing it NOW?
Merlot
(9,696 posts)2. It's not a "filing system" it's distruction of presidential papers
and evidence?
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)3. What annoys me the most
is that he has no regard for anything HE feels doesn't apply to him. Don't like it? Ignore or flaunt. Does he not get that, once again, this is illegal? He's in that job doing whatever the hell he wants to and the law and the American people be damned.
We can't get him removed soon enough. He's a time bomb.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)4. Another ethical & legal violation to add to the list.
K&R.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)5. He's an habitual criminal.