There’s a new article out in Politico that has the blue-check mob all aflutter that details how government officials are using scotch tape to piece together President Trump’s trash in order to comply with the Presidential Records Act:
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 https://t.co/SxhurtBzmC
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) June 10, 2018
In short, the president rips documents up after he reads them and staffers then have to piece them back together:
“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.” https://t.co/IYYbK6Z5UN
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 10, 2018
According to the article, they can’t convince the president to stop doing it:
Trump keeps ripping up memos he’s done with even though law requires them to be saved. Records department staffers are digging them out of the trash and scotch-taping them together. Aides told him to stop, “but the habit proved difficult to break.” https://t.co/RCyHA1o8t5
— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) June 10, 2018
And for this quirk, the president is a “toddler”:
I’ll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler. https://t.co/bDljV0nKYY pic.twitter.com/CF9H7lMKU0
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 10, 2018
We now have a federal bureaucracy devoted to scotch-taping official records back together because President Trump has refused to comply with polite requests to stop ripping them up and tossing them on the floor like a toddler does cheerios. https://t.co/bvpXfyBoaU
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) June 10, 2018
So let us get this straight…
The White House has a system in place to make sure Trump’s trash is pieced back together at the end of the day to make sure he’s in full compliance with the law. It’s almost as if a certain other presidential candidate who was in the news for her lack of compliance with record-keeping practices would have benefited from having people as dedicated as Trump’s around her.
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