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Watching March roll out real winter
One reason McConnell and others are continuing to let Trump tread water on the election outcome could be that it takes awhile to decide what to shred of this erratic, impulsive President's documented track record... despite various relevant laws and guidelines.
File under "imagine the impertinence of even asking certain questions":
Biden may have trouble unearthing Trump’s national security secrets
The law requires sitting presidents to preserve all records relating to the performance of their official duties — but it has no real enforcement mechanism.
www.politico.com
There are some guidelines: The National Archives defines presidential records as any documentary materials “created or received” by the president, their immediate staff, or anyone in the Executive Office of the President “whose function is to advise or assist the President” in the course of carrying out official duties. But it is not clear how much has been preserved given Trump’s habit of ripping up documents — the employees once tasked with taping them back together were summarily fired in 2018 — and the White House’s general paranoia about leaks.
File under "imagine the impertinence of even asking certain questions":
Asked about their compliance with records laws, a White House official said, “We preserve everything we have to preserve.” Pressed on whether anything had been deleted from the National Security Council’s code word classified system — where some transcripts of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders have been hidden — the official replied: “I’m not going to talk about any of that. But we comply with everything. Like, we’re really actually not criminals.”