The Incredible Vanishing Trump Presidency
The Presidential Records Act was not designed for a president as lawless and shameless as Trump.
Donald Trump doesn’t like to read, and, apparently, he doesn’t want other people to read either.
A series of reports this week has revealed how extensively the former president destroyed documents produced by his administration, in defiance of federal laws. When the House committee investigating January 6 and Trump’s attempts to overturn the election received documents it had requested from the National Archives, some of them had been ripped up and then taped back together—the work, respectively, of Trump, who has long handled, and staffers, who were trying to comply with federal laws requiring records preservation.
