, Trump would personally shred production notes, even Post-it Notes, after and between takes, leaving the show’s staff to sweep up or vacuum up the bits and pieces. While on his private plane or working in Trump Tower, he would regularly tear up—and casually toss aside—copies of Trump Organization financial documents, news articles, and print-outs of tweets that were brought to him.
And yet, on Dec. 7, 2020, in the tumultuous closing months of the Trump era, DOJ attorney Elizabeth Shapiro argued that a federal judge shouldn’t bother issuing a temporary restraining order to secure documents because White House officials had already been told to keep documents intact.transcript "This is almost like low-hanging fruit, and it’s kind of perplexing the Justice Department doesn’t appear to be looking at this. We’ve been sounding the alarm on this for years,” said Nikhel Sus, a senior attorney at CREW. “If you’re sending the message to government officials we don’t take records laws seriously, what incentive do they have to comply with them? It’s encouraging noncompliance.
That’s not just the opinion of political commentators. The nation’s two living former national archivists believe the Presidential Records Act has no teeth. “This law was designed to rein in a corrupt president like Nixon. But it still entrusts the president alone with compliance of the law,” said Sus, the senior attorney at CREW. “Laws really need to have consequences to have an impact, because otherwise, if it’s just based on norms, it’s not going to cut it if you’re going to have somebody like Trump come in.”
This story is so frustrating! It clearly shows trump broke the law (and after being notified numerous times) AND STILL THE MESSAGE: trump WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED!! Fuxk to hell we go!!!
Pursue all laws against him that he broke. Squeeze the grifters around him. Purge the State Dept from all the institutional moles Stephen Miller rooted in there. But FFS do not bar Trump from running for office should he be a free citizen. You don’t pour gas on a fire, Christ
Trump is looking for a favor.
Prison might help?!
It seems this is the easiest way to go. Do it, and bring more charges later because you know there will be.
And then it explains why the law won't be used.
Send in the WhiteHouse interns
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