Along with the injury to the historical record caused by the former president’s failure to lawfully preserve documents that detail his actions as chief executive, there is the additional insult of the news that the National Archives were forced to retrieve the purloined boxes from Trump’s current residence at Mar-a-Lago, where they were stored in a location subject to climate change-induced storm damage and sub-tropical humidity in the event of a power failure.
Included in the retrieved boxes, according to Trump advisors, were “mementos, gifts, letters from world leaders, and other correspondence,” including the missives sent by North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un that Trump had characterized as “love letters” and the letter left to Trump by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
The news — combined with recent reports that White House aides regularly were forced to tape back together for archive official documents that Trump habitually tore apart after glancing at them — raises serious concerns about Trump’s cavalier attitude towards the Presidential Records Act, whose provisions he repeatedly invoked when denouncing Hillary Clinton for the handling of her own official email.
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