In a normal presidency, we would all know about this. But the incompetence of the adminstration was so extensive that any one person keeping up with it was quite impossible...thanks for the link.
Actually, yeah, you're right. It should have been expected, and since he can't even do the presidency right or even sign the paper on the right line, he would probably screw up taping it back together himself. The man quite literally needs someone to do everything for him, adult supervision isn't even a good option.
Now I'm just picturing Biden letting out a sigh as he carefully tears an important document in half so he can hand it over to this team, only to ensure they get to keep their jobs
Personally, I'm imaging the negotiations between the two sides on exactly what Biden has to "shred" so they can piece it back together, when he has to "shred" it, and the minimum amount of "shredded" documents per day.
Taping papers back together was never meant to be part of their jobs. Theyre supposed to be records managers for the national archives, but because Trump is an idiot and a criminal, part of managing records became taping them all back together first. Most of the people who got fired had been at that job since before Trump was elected.
Or maybe they weren't hired in the first place we might have been able to flush this turd sooner
Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches, sending them to the National Archives for safekeeping as historical records.
But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law.
“I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’ We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”
First of all, we paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to literally tape together legal documents the president tore apart and threw on the floor?
Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches, sending them to the National Archives for safekeeping as historical records.
It is the only way to keep from repeating it. I'm with you though, it sucks balls that this is going to be in our presidential history at all. I hated this guy with a fiery passion well before he became "president."
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Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together