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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, can't say it's surprising to know that Trump consistently violated regulations while in office. But regarding his ripping up documents that staffers then tried to piece back together, what I want to know is, can't they just be reprinted? Or don't these just get sent as digital documents to the National Archives? Why are the Archives even accepting so many paper documents anyway at this point, doesn't the government have a mandate to go digital and paperless?

All these documents that are being discussed in this article, surely they originated as some kind of computer file format, right? I get that if Trump signed something you'd want that unique doc, but it doesn't sound like he was ripping up papers that he signed.

Anyone with direct experience care to weigh in?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-ripping-documents/

[quote]President Donald Trump tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane.

He ripped paper into quarters with two big, clean strokes — or occasionally more vigorously, into smaller scraps.

He left the detritus on his desk in the Oval Office, in the trash can of his private West Wing study and on the floor aboard Air Force One, among many other places.

And he did it all in violation of the Presidential Records Act, despite being urged by at least two chiefs of staff and the White House counsel to follow the law on preserving documents.

“It is absolutely a violation of the act,” said Courtney Chartier, president of the Society of American Archivists. “There is no ignorance of these laws. There are White House manuals about the maintenance of these records.”[/quote]
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