Trump's former White House chief of staff said he saw the former president rip documents in half

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said he witnessed former President Donald Trump tearing documents up while serving in office.

"I saw the president rip documents in half. Not confidential documents, but just draft documents. You're not supposed to do that, but there's a way to fix it," he said in an interview with CNN. "Which is you just find the pieces and you just tape them together."

"I used to rip up documents in the private sector all the time," he continued. "It's not an indication of ill intent."

Scrutiny into the preservation of documents under the Trump administration started partly after, earlier this year, New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman revealed in a forthcoming book that the president had clogged a toilet by flushing torn pieces of paper down it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-former-white-house-chief-of-staff-said-he-saw-the-former-president-rip-documents-in-half/ar-AA10TTLl

[walkingman]

1. These asshats know they are above the law and so this is the result. Until some is held

accountable nothing will change....nothing.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Yes but Trump was POTUS which is not the private sector.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Lackey sez whut?

[Claustrum]

4. Fine. It might be a mistake at the first time or the first 10 times.

But after that, TFG should have learned that he shouldn't do these things. They keep letting him get away with everything and that's why TFG kept ignoring norms and laws. THEY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. They created TFG. They still keep excusing all of the bad behaviors from TFG even now.

[gratuitous]

5. You know something, Mick? The president isn't in the private sector

Are you saying the former guy was too stupid to understand the difference?

[underpants]

8. The only thing that matters is him

See my post below. We are in the same line of thinking.

Laws don’t apply to him. When it was for money and fame, ok. It was I guess positive. Now he’s in the defensive and looks weak. And he knows it.

[underpants]

6. They were completely out of their league. Different sport really.

In the public sector every single thing you do is public information. Fish bowl - newspaper - all that.

Mulvaney had no reason to get involved with them at all. No excuses.

[Botany]

7. Oh please, Mulvaney' niece filed the paperwork for the pre coup pep rally.

And Mick is finding Jesus now?

https://www.newsweek.com/mick-mulvaneys-niece-maggie-played-key-role-rally-before-capitol-riot-1562257

Records show that Maggie Mulvaney, the niece of former Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, played a key role in the "Save America Rally" on January 6 that occurred prior to President Donald Trump's supporters storming the U.S. Capitol.

Trump has been accused of inciting the Capitol riot with a speech to supporters of the rally held at the Ellipse. During the event, which was organized by the nonprofit Women for America First, the president urged his followers to "fight much harder" and walk down to the Capitol amid his baseless allegations of election fraud.

Violent pro-Trump rioters broke into the Capitol building hours later, forcing lawmakers to evacuate. The siege left five dead, including a police officer.
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Maggie Mulvaney was listed as a "VIP Lead" in a Park Service permit granted for the event, according to an Associated Press review of records.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Just flush the pieces out of the toilet and tape them up.

[tanyev]

10. Yeah, you get an entire department of federal employees paid to tape them back together.

Great use of our taxpayer dollars, Mick!

From June 2018:

Lartey did not work alone. He said his entire department was dedicated to the task of taping paper back together in the opening months of the Trump administration.

One of his colleagues, Reginald Young Jr., who worked as a senior records management analyst, said that during over two decades of government service, he had never been asked to do such a thing.

“We had to endure this under the Trump administration,” Young said. “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. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”

The White House did not comment on the president’s paper-ripping habit. According to Young and Lartey, staffers in the records department were still designated to the task of taping together the scraps as recently as this spring.

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