The unlikely team that is trying to make Trump follow the law
(CNN)Give it up for the archivists.
After a lengthy special counsel investigation, two impeachment trials and ongoing hearings into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, it's the record-keepers who appear to have unstuck the investigative powers of the Justice Department. Earlier this week, the FBI conducted a search of former President Donald Trump's club, Mar-a-Lago, in pursuit of apparently pilfered documents.
That Trump allegedly sought to squirrel away documents comes as no surprise. His tenure in political office -- indeed, his entire career -- has been marked by careful avoidance of written records, which is likely one reason he doesn't use email. While in the White House, he had a habit of regularly destroying records, something Politico described as his "odd and enduring habit of ripping up papers when he's done with them."
Records management analysts spent countless hours taping the papers back together so they could be preserved and catalogued by the National Archives and Records Administration, though by 2018, much of that team, as reported by Politico, had been abruptly and inexplicably fired.
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