Trump tore up records turned over to House Capitol attack committee

[Jilly_in_VA]

Some of the White House records turned over to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack were ripped up by Donald Trump, the National Archives said.

It also emerged on Tuesday that the former president thinks his own vice-president, Mike Pence, should be investigated by the committee, for failing to reject electoral college results on the fateful day.

Documents obtained by the January 6 panel include diaries, schedules, handwritten notes, speeches and remarks. The supreme court rejected Trump’s attempt to stop the National Archives turning them over to Congress.

In a statement, the Archives said: “Some of the Trump presidential records received by the National Archives and Records Administration included paper records that had been torn up by former president Trump.

“These were turned over to the National Archives at the end of the Trump administration, along with a number of torn-up records that had not been reconstructed by the White House. The Presidential Records Act requires that all records created by presidents be turned over to the National Archives at the end of their administrations.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/01/trump-tore-up-records-turned-over-house-capitol-attack-committee

[Kingofalldems]

1. Pretty sure that's a crime too.

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5. and not of just any law. the federal records act, which was the basis for hillary email witch hunt.

it would be sweet justice if donnie went to prison for the thing they tried to pin on hillary.

it probably doesn't rise to the level of something prosecutable, not if it's just a few memos torn up but not permanently destroyed. nor would i hold much hope for for a conviction and a prison sentence anyway; but still....

[jmowreader]

8. Trump tore up every piece of paper anyone handed him

Apparently that's how he does it in business - when he's through with a paper, he tears it into pieces.

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10. that would also explain why he prefers single-page memos

[Thomas Hurt]

11. well that and being functionally illiterate.

[Srkdqltr]

2. Of course he did. Surprised? No.

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6. it was already known that he routinely tore up memos he didn't like

and that staffers would gather the pieces, reconstruct and tape them together for the federal records act.

either they stopped caring or or ran out of time to fix all of them at the end.

[Srkdqltr]

12. Yes we knew that

[FSogol]

3. Future historians will chuckle over that baby-like idiot that infected the WH.

At the archives:

Here's letters that Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams
Here's letters of condolences from Bill Clinton
and here's evidence of a class 4 temper-tantrum from Trumpy who didn't get his way

[gohuskies]

4. No crime is too small or too big for Mango Mussolini to commit

This rancid turd TFG 45 is the truly the most disgusting disease inflicted upon American democratic government and morality. The day he exits this physical world will be a day to declare a international holiday.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

7. How much you wanna bet he tore em up and threw them in the trash

And some low-level White House staffer had to fish them out and send them over to the Archives?

[llmart]

9. Was he too stupid to know how to work a shredder?

n/t

[Hoyt]

13. He's tore up documents long before he lost election.

I know we want to see trump behind bars, so do I. But this is hardly the evidence needed to convict him. In fact, let's say there is a document about taking over voting machines in contested states. trump can easily say I rejected the idea and tore up the documents.

I hope the select committee is going through the documents 24 hours a day. Within a week or two, they ought to be reporting anything they found that is actually incriminating. We already know trump is a loser, buffoon, out for himself and no one else, etc. But we knew that when he was elected in 2016.

Here's an article on the people who tape trump's documents back together, written in 2018:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. A habit probably taught to him by Roy Cohn.

Leave any paper trail in irrecoverable shreds. No paper trail = no evidence.

It figures, of course, that El Porko couldn't even get that done right. And that he'd just drop them on the floor for lesser mortals than he to deal with.

[fightforfreedom]

15. Obstruction of justice, destroying evidence, abuse of power, conspiracy to destroy evidence.

Destroying government property. All possible crimes when you destroy Whitehouse records that are part of an investigation into Jan. 6th.

Trump is going down.

[Talitha]

16. Didn't someone report seeing him eat a note when they entered the room?

The same person said it was explained to Dump why he was supposed to keep all notes, but it made no difference.

Mob habits die hard, I guess.