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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/5/2022
"He Never Stopped Ripping Things Up": Trump's Habitual Document Destruction
Donald Trump's personal defiance of the Presidential Records Act appears to have been widespread, purposeful, and illegal.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/7/2022
National Archive Had to Retrieve White House Records from Mar-a-Lago
In an odd twist that no one could have seen coming, the Trump administration appears to have violated legal requirements for the preservation and security of presidential records.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/14/2021
Trump, Defying Custom, Hasn’t Given the National Archives Records of His Speeches at Political Rallies
by Shannon Bow O'Brien
"Until President Trump, there have been no missing public speeches in the permanent collection. By removing these speeches, Trump is creating a false perception of his presidency, making it look more serious and traditional."
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SOURCE: The Hill
12/23/2020
Democracy, History and the Presidential Records Act
by James Grossman and Richard Immerman
It's time to update the Presidential Records Act to clarify the kinds of materials that must be preserved and create real penalties for destroying them.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
12/1/2020
AHA Joins Lawsuit to Protect Historical Records
The AHA is party to a lawsuit pressing the Trump administration and the National Archives to comply with laws requiring complete preservation of presidential records.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/16/2020
Will Trump Burn the Evidence?
by Jill Lepore
Reckoning with the Trump adminstration's actions and assigning moral or criminal sanction to any misdeeds will probably be compromised by the destruction or failure to maintain presidential records.
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SOURCE: FOIA Ombudsman Blog (National Archives)
5/14/2020
The Importance of Preserving Pandemic Records
The National Archives has joined other organizations in a call to ensure that records related to the pandemic and governments' responses are preserved and made accessible to future researchers.
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SOURCE: Salon
3/17/2020
Historian David Perry: After Trump, We'll Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
A Truth and Reconciliation commission would be a necessary first step in documenting the Trump regime's crimes and assaults on truth, reality and America's collective memory.
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SOURCE: Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
3/16/2020
Lawsuit: Ice Must Not Destroy Detainee Records
NARA approved ICE’s request to begin destroying the records in December 2019, despite ongoing concerns and reports of widespread mistreatment of individuals detained in ICE custody.
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SOURCE: Politico
2/25/19
Obama Makes It Harder to See the Arc of History Bend
by John Gans
My old boss’ post-presidential center is a missed opportunity.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/26/19
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