Former President Donald Trump would rip up documents and throw them on the floor after reading them, a former White House valet told the January 6 House committee.
His testimony points to possible document destruction by Trump when he was still president. It is illegal under the Presidential Records Act for a president to destroy official records as the form part of the national archive. Trump is already awaiting trial on charges of hoarding presidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
In newly released and heavily redacted testimony, the employee told the committee on June 10, 2022, that Trump habitually destroyed documents after reading them. When a committee member asked: “Do you remember the president ever tearing up or destroying documents that he had seen?” the employee replied: “That’s typically what he would do once he’s finished with a document. He would tear everything, tear newspapers, tear photos.”
He added: “He liked to look at pictures and he would just tear it once he’s done looking at it and just throw it on the floor.”
This was in the news at the time. Nobody seemed to care. Additionally 2 full time staffers were hired to tape back the papers for the archives at a cost of a few hundred thousand per year. Again, nobody cared.
The article keeps referring to Jan 6, 2001. But you’re right again, nobody cared.
People cared. I cared. But what is there to do? Protest? Write a letter to our senator?
Didn’t he eat some of them, too?
Edit: allegedly yes, he did eat some of them.
Yeah, I remember listening to an episode of the Daily, and he would definitely eat his notes.