Trump has a habit of ripping up papers when he's done w/ them: nannies have to tape them together

I can not even laugh at this crap anymore! Tax money goes to pay a salary because a spoiled brat sits in the oval office. damn.



Kyle Griffin Verified account @kylegriffin1
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Trump has a habit of ripping up papers when he’s done with them—his unofficial "filing system."

Under the Presidential Records Act, the W.H. must preserve all papers, so officials take them out of the trash and Scotch tape them back together.

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Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together

The president's unofficial 'filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.


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

By ANNIE KARNI

06/10/2018 04:12 PM EDT


By Stephen Pomper and Jon B. Wolfsthal

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 president’s 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 process that was the result of a clash between legal requirements to preserve White House records and President Donald Trump’s odd and enduring habit of ripping up papers when he’s done with them — what some people described as his unofficial “filing system.”

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.




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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.....................