together. quote, the president s unofficial filing system involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they re supposed to be preserved. apparently that habit persisted through to the end. this is the washington post reporting tonight. quote, when the national archives and records administration handed over a trove of documents to the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, some of the trump white house records had been ripped up and taped back together according to three people familiar with the records. former president trump was known inside the white house for his unusual and potentially unlawful habit of tearing presidential records into shreds and tossing them on the floor. creating a headache for records management analysts who meticulously used scotch tape to piece together fragments of paper that were sometimes as small as confetti. despite the presidential records act which requires the preservation of notes and faxes and communications re
by officials. with tape. yeah. washington post reports this. national archives transmitted over 700 pages of documents to the january 6 committee last month that included records concerns the events of january 6, 2021, including those that were torn up and reconstructed. trump s habit of tearing up papers has been known for years, but the post reports that the documents now in the hands of the january 6 committee show that quote, the former president s shredding practices continued well into the latter stages of his presidency. this is despite the fact that the law requires every piece of paper. every memo, every note, every e-mail be preserve. the post adds this on the potential legal consequences for the ex-president on this front, quote, steven gillers, a new york university law professor and scholar said documents torn up by trump are clearly the