this idea that there were other white house officials, a senior white house official who said that he and other people would put documents in burn bags to have them destroyed because they didn t want to maintain them. so, this isn t just behavior about trump. this is a looks like potentially much wider spread behavior than just one man who had a habit of tearing little confetti bits of paper that crossed into the oval office. it is highly alarming one way or the other. great point on the confidentiality and classified information. peter strzok, barbara mcquade, michael steele, luke broadwater, thank you. protesters taking to the street of minneapolis after police shot and killed amir locke on his couch after the execution of a no-knock warrant. it is another tragedy for the country and once again sparking a national conversation about racial injustice and policing. plus, president biden putting forth a united front with the new german chancellor just as the french president, em
while president trump was in office, staff in the white house residence periodically find wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper. i don t know. i worked in the white house several years ago. we had burn bags. that would have been a lot easier. that was my factious joke. there s a presidential records act, to save it for posterity for the american people. if he was throwing it down the toilet, because he found them taping them back together. it is so outrageous, the lows never stop coming. i am not a lawyer. we will speak to an esteemed lawyer shortly. one of the issues you point out it s hard to prosecute you to prove intent. now, i have been alive for a
well, it is unlawful. it s a violation of the presidential records act. i think the question of whether it s a crime is a little more complicated than that. it is certainly against the law but the presidential records doesn t have an enforcement mechanism. the question is what was he hiding, what was he tearing up, what was in the burn bags, what was the intent behind it? if the intent was ob struck justice, high wrong doing that would be a crime depending on the intent of the person doing it. otherwise, it s very wrong, unlawful but there s no enforcement mechanism and no obvious criminal penalty there. dplgloria, the political hypocrisy is the right word, irony of donald trump who railed
documents into burn bags to be destroyed, rather than preserving them and would decide themselves what should be saved and what should be burned. the january 6th committee asked for certain documents related to trump s efforts to pressure vice president mike pence, for example, some of them no longer existed in the person s files, because they had already been shredded, end quote. a former senior trump official said of trump, quote, he didn t want a record of anything. now, i guess one simple straightforward way to describe that might be this. it s an official document, you re not allowed. it s illegal what she did. she broke the law. apparently not content to violate the presidential records by ripping them up into pieces and putting them in burn bags and shredding them or burning them donald trump apparently took a whole bunch of presidential records with him when he left the white house.
we should note that trump has denied the allegations, for once that it s worth. he s been from twitter. quote, another fixture, that i flesh papers and documents found of white house toilet, it s categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for mostly fictitious book. but it s been widely reported that trump has a habit of differing documents, ripping them up, destined for burn bags. even potentially flushing them. never leave anything in writing. and there is always, again, to go back to the brazenness, there s always this exculpatory air that hangs over him because he s so clearly such a moral idiot. who doesn t know what s right and what s wrong. there s something to scope a tory about the fact that he ripped everything up. he s, like it s all habit, a paper ripper. but flushing records down the toilet? he do that out of habit? just absent minded lee, there,