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Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building, standing over a desk with scraps of paper spread out in front of him.
Lartey, who earned an annual salary of $65,969 as a records management analyst, was a career government official with close to 30 years under his belt. But he had never seen anything like this in any previous administration he had worked for. He had never had to tape the presidents papers back together again.
Armed with rolls of clear Scotch tape, Lartey and his colleagues would sift through large piles of shredded paper and put them back together, he said, like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes the papers would just be split down the middle, but other times they would be torn into pieces so small they looked like confetti.
It was a painstaking project that was the result of a clash between legal requirements to preserve White House records and President Donald Trumps odd and enduring habit of ripping up papers when hes done with them what some people described as his unofficial filing system.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
no_hypocrisy
(46,202 posts)RockRaven
(15,010 posts)Whilst grinding his teeth? I bet the degree of paper tearing relates to how angry he is about the meeting he's just had...
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)That is a very, very, very, very telling few seconds.
I was an optimist for way too long. Several days at least.
FSogol
(45,529 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)He is one helluva piece of work.
As much as we knew about him before, it just keeps getting worse by the day.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)I imagine Trump like this while waiting for Mueller's axe to drop:
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)I guess they were suspected of leaking something. Or Trump or a fanatic decided that anyone employed under the previous administration had to be fired if they read the Holy Words of the God Emperor.
The Oval Office now has a virtual Baby On Board sign.
Blue Owl
(50,509 posts)n/t
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)intelligent enough to think of making copies of the papers before they hand them to Trump?
Hekate
(90,829 posts)yankeepants
(1,979 posts)With the crayon marks on them.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)orangecrush
(19,624 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)When will it all stop?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)deplorables will be so proud that we hate him.
Raven123
(4,872 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,075 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,426 posts)Thanks for the thread demmiblue
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)If ever, people are going to be incredulous that it wasn't stopped sooner and how he had so many enablers. I hope it will be the end of the GOP. It SHOULD be the end of the GOP.