Trump Rips Up Official Papers Into “Tiny Pieces” But WH Staffers Tape Them Back Together As Law Requires

Politico reports:

Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches, sending them to the National Archives for safekeeping as historical records.

But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law.

Staffers had the fragments of paper collected from the Oval Office as well as the private residence and send it over to records management across the street from the White House for Larkey and his colleagues to reassemble.

Hit the link and read the account of the two now-former White House staffers who spent their days laboriously scotch-taping official documents back together. Both men say they were forced to sign resignation letters and were marched out of the White House by the Secret Service. Seriously, read the full story.