Help Wanted; Tape Provided

Last year, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive sued the Trump administration for violations of the Presidential Records Act. Their claim is that White House staff has been using encrypted messaging applications – that automatically delete messages – for internal correspondence. The Records Act requires that all White House communications be captured for posterity.

Our president uses a more rudimentary method of expunging written documents: he rips up the pages, sometimes with a single tear down the middle, sometimes shredding the paper into confetti-sized pieces, sometimes tossed into the trash, other times scattered on the floor.

Of course it’s left to others to clean up the dealmaker’s mess. The pieces are gathered up and carried to the records management department across the street from the White House. There the pages are painstakingly put back together using the latest high-tech methodology: Scotch tape. Look for this in a few years at the Donald J Trump Presidential Library.

In other Presidential Records news, Jared and Ivanka, among others, have been conducting government business via private e-mail servers. Congress will begin an inquiry into this… when they’ve finished their investigation(s) of Hillary’s e-mails. So, in a few years… if ever.

 

One thought on “Help Wanted; Tape Provided”

  1. Even the Nazis kept accurate records. Maybe this Feuhrer protege learned from hearing about the Nuremburg trials.

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