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[quote=Anonymous][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?
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I don't work for the EOP but in my agency, there are many official documents that include routing information that has to be signed as accepted.  In most cases, it is against federal record regulations to substitute or reprint any component of a document that has already been signed by at least one other person.  Doing so invalidates the routing information and signatures.  In effect, even if the recipient tore up a page, if you reprint it, you no longer have a guarantee that the document or page substituted is the same as the document that was received.  You could have changed words before you reprinted.  And by replacing any page of the document, in effect, the new copy will not have been received by the recipient.  It is against federal record keeping policies to do what you suggest.

What the staff did was the correct procedure.  They were supposed to restore the actual copy that was presented and verified as accepted by the POTUS.  Trump was in violation of federal record keeping regulations.[/quote]

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