Will Trump burn the evidence on his way out?

[JGalt]

Rats are jumping ship now. Prosecutors are ready to pounce. The only question is where he will escape.

I'm betting on a midnight run to Moscow on a private jet shortly prior to his trial. He'll take the entire family and set up an office in Vlado's house.

You're a dinosaur. Nobody really believes that "Trump/Russia collusion" story anymore.

 

[DrLove]

My bet is HELL yes! Yours?

Donald Trump is not much of a note-taker, and he does not like his staff to take notes. He has a habit of tearing up documents at the close of meetings. (Records analysts, armed with Scotch Tape, have tried to put the pieces back together.) No real record exists for five meetings Trump had with Vladimir Putin during the first two years of his Presidency. Members of his staff have routinely used apps that automatically erase text messages, and Trump often deletes his own tweets, notwithstanding a warning from the National Archives and Records Administration that doing so contravenes the Presidential Records Act.​

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Trump cannot abide documentation for fear of disclosure, and cannot abide disclosure for fear of disparagement. For decades, in private life, he required people who worked with him, and with the Trump Organization, to sign nondisclosure agreements, pledging never to say a bad word about him, his family, or his businesses. He also extracted nondisclosure agreements from women with whom he had or is alleged to have had sex, including both of his ex-wives. In 2015 and 2016, he required these contracts from people involved in his campaign, including a distributor of his “Make America Great Again” hats. (Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign required N.D.A.s from some employees, too. In 2020, Joe Biden called on Michael Bloomberg to release his former employees from such agreements.)​

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In 2017, Trump, unable to distinguish between private life and public service, carried his practice of requiring nondisclosure agreements into the Presidency, demanding that senior White House staff sign N.D.A.s. According to the Washington Post, at least one of them, in draft form, included this language: “I understand that the United States Government or, upon completion of the term(s) of Mr. Donald J. Trump, an authorized representative of Mr. Trump, may seek any remedy available to enforce this Agreement including, but not limited to, application for a court order prohibiting disclosure of information in breach of this Agreement.” Aides warned him that, for White House employees, such agreements are likely not legally enforceable. The White House counsel, Don McGahn, refused to distribute them; eventually, he relented, and the chief of staff, Reince Priebus, pressured employees to sign them.​

MOAR:

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

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Well, he may burned them after serving four more years. But I think all the documents must go into the government archives. Those documents are official government documents. That it is illegal to destroy government documents.

No, the president can't destroy records. Here's why. - The World from PRX

In 1978, Congress created the Presidential Records Act, which makes the records of a president public, not private. Here's what that means amid some of the latest revelations that US President Donald Trump has withheld records of his conversations with Vladimir Putin.

www.pri.org

Pelosi of course destroyed a document she knew was copy number 496 and would hardly be missed. Guarantee you, Trumpy Bear burned or shredded all the notes from his meetings with dictators like Putin. He's a criminal - Probably a felon.

 

[DrLove]

I agree.

He should not make the same mistake that President Nixon made.

After all, the Dem mob (especially in New York state) is just breathlessly waiting for January 21 to drag him (and his family) into court, so he should destroy everything that he legally can.

You are suggesting that Nixon should have destroyed the tapes? That's just sad man.

 

[TheParser]

I agree.

He should not make the same mistake that President Nixon made.

After all, the Dem mob (especially in New York state) is just breathlessly waiting for January 21 to drag him (and his family) into court, so he should destroy everything that he legally can.

You are suggesting that Nixon should have destroyed the tapes? That's just sad man.

He was really stupid (and arrogant) to make those tapes. Since they were his property, he had the right (I assume) to destroy them. For example, if he had kept a diary, surely he would have had the right to destroy that diary.

 

[DrLove]

I agree.

He should not make the same mistake that President Nixon made.

After all, the Dem mob (especially in New York state) is just breathlessly waiting for January 21 to drag him (and his family) into court, so he should destroy everything that he legally can.

You are suggesting that Nixon should have destroyed the tapes? That's just sad man.

He was really stupid (and arrogant) to make those tapes. Since they were his property, he had the right (I assume) to destroy them. For example, if he had kept a diary, surely he would have had the right to destroy that diary.

Jesus, a personal diary and tapes of conversations proving criminal activity are just a tad different wouldn't you say?

 

[TheParser]

I agree.

He should not make the same mistake that President Nixon made.

After all, the Dem mob (especially in New York state) is just breathlessly waiting for January 21 to drag him (and his family) into court, so he should destroy everything that he legally can.

You are suggesting that Nixon should have destroyed the tapes? That's just sad man.

He was really stupid (and arrogant) to make those tapes. Since they were his property, he had the right (I assume) to destroy them. For example, if he had kept a diary, surely he would have had the right to destroy that diary.

Jesus, a personal diary and tapes of conversations proving criminal activity are just a tad different wouldn't you say?

Can't a personal diary also discuss "criminal activity"?

Have a nice weekend!

 

[DrLove]

I agree.

He should not make the same mistake that President Nixon made.

After all, the Dem mob (especially in New York state) is just breathlessly waiting for January 21 to drag him (and his family) into court, so he should destroy everything that he legally can.

You are suggesting that Nixon should have destroyed the tapes? That's just sad man.

He was really stupid (and arrogant) to make those tapes. Since they were his property, he had the right (I assume) to destroy them. For example, if he had kept a diary, surely he would have had the right to destroy that diary.

Jesus, a personal diary and tapes of conversations proving criminal activity are just a tad different wouldn't you say?

Can't a personal diary also discuss "criminal activity"?

Have a nice weekend!

No, they would be considered contemporaneous person notes same as the memos James Comey wrote to himself. Phone conversations, notes taken during his meeting with Putin, crimes being committed in broad daylight among several so-conspirators are government property.

 

[kaz]

My bet is HELL yes! Yours?

Donald Trump is not much of a note-taker, and he does not like his staff to take notes. He has a habit of tearing up documents at the close of meetings. (Records analysts, armed with Scotch Tape, have tried to put the pieces back together.) No real record exists for five meetings Trump had with Vladimir Putin during the first two years of his Presidency. Members of his staff have routinely used apps that automatically erase text messages, and Trump often deletes his own tweets, notwithstanding a warning from the National Archives and Records Administration that doing so contravenes the Presidential Records Act.​

​

Trump cannot abide documentation for fear of disclosure, and cannot abide disclosure for fear of disparagement. For decades, in private life, he required people who worked with him, and with the Trump Organization, to sign nondisclosure agreements, pledging never to say a bad word about him, his family, or his businesses. He also extracted nondisclosure agreements from women with whom he had or is alleged to have had sex, including both of his ex-wives. In 2015 and 2016, he required these contracts from people involved in his campaign, including a distributor of his “Make America Great Again” hats. (Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign required N.D.A.s from some employees, too. In 2020, Joe Biden called on Michael Bloomberg to release his former employees from such agreements.)​

​

In 2017, Trump, unable to distinguish between private life and public service, carried his practice of requiring nondisclosure agreements into the Presidency, demanding that senior White House staff sign N.D.A.s. According to the Washington Post, at least one of them, in draft form, included this language: “I understand that the United States Government or, upon completion of the term(s) of Mr. Donald J. Trump, an authorized representative of Mr. Trump, may seek any remedy available to enforce this Agreement including, but not limited to, application for a court order prohibiting disclosure of information in breach of this Agreement.” Aides warned him that, for White House employees, such agreements are likely not legally enforceable. The White House counsel, Don McGahn, refused to distribute them; eventually, he relented, and the chief of staff, Reince Priebus, pressured employees to sign them.​

MOAR:

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

www.newyorker.com

Conspiracy theory, doesn't belong in politics

 

[Superbadbrutha]

My bet is HELL yes! Yours?

Donald Trump is not much of a note-taker, and he does not like his staff to take notes. He has a habit of tearing up documents at the close of meetings. (Records analysts, armed with Scotch Tape, have tried to put the pieces back together.) No real record exists for five meetings Trump had with Vladimir Putin during the first two years of his Presidency. Members of his staff have routinely used apps that automatically erase text messages, and Trump often deletes his own tweets, notwithstanding a warning from the National Archives and Records Administration that doing so contravenes the Presidential Records Act.​

​

Trump cannot abide documentation for fear of disclosure, and cannot abide disclosure for fear of disparagement. For decades, in private life, he required people who worked with him, and with the Trump Organization, to sign nondisclosure agreements, pledging never to say a bad word about him, his family, or his businesses. He also extracted nondisclosure agreements from women with whom he had or is alleged to have had sex, including both of his ex-wives. In 2015 and 2016, he required these contracts from people involved in his campaign, including a distributor of his “Make America Great Again” hats. (Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign required N.D.A.s from some employees, too. In 2020, Joe Biden called on Michael Bloomberg to release his former employees from such agreements.)​

​

In 2017, Trump, unable to distinguish between private life and public service, carried his practice of requiring nondisclosure agreements into the Presidency, demanding that senior White House staff sign N.D.A.s. According to the Washington Post, at least one of them, in draft form, included this language: “I understand that the United States Government or, upon completion of the term(s) of Mr. Donald J. Trump, an authorized representative of Mr. Trump, may seek any remedy available to enforce this Agreement including, but not limited to, application for a court order prohibiting disclosure of information in breach of this Agreement.” Aides warned him that, for White House employees, such agreements are likely not legally enforceable. The White House counsel, Don McGahn, refused to distribute them; eventually, he relented, and the chief of staff, Reince Priebus, pressured employees to sign them.​

MOAR:

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

www.newyorker.com

Id burn everything if i were him. Democrats would try to twist a request for coffee into some kind of criminal conspiracy.

Of course you would, criminals burn evidence.

 

[Godboy]

My bet is HELL yes! Yours?

Donald Trump is not much of a note-taker, and he does not like his staff to take notes. He has a habit of tearing up documents at the close of meetings. (Records analysts, armed with Scotch Tape, have tried to put the pieces back together.) No real record exists for five meetings Trump had with Vladimir Putin during the first two years of his Presidency. Members of his staff have routinely used apps that automatically erase text messages, and Trump often deletes his own tweets, notwithstanding a warning from the National Archives and Records Administration that doing so contravenes the Presidential Records Act.​

​

Trump cannot abide documentation for fear of disclosure, and cannot abide disclosure for fear of disparagement. For decades, in private life, he required people who worked with him, and with the Trump Organization, to sign nondisclosure agreements, pledging never to say a bad word about him, his family, or his businesses. He also extracted nondisclosure agreements from women with whom he had or is alleged to have had sex, including both of his ex-wives. In 2015 and 2016, he required these contracts from people involved in his campaign, including a distributor of his “Make America Great Again” hats. (Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign required N.D.A.s from some employees, too. In 2020, Joe Biden called on Michael Bloomberg to release his former employees from such agreements.)​

​

In 2017, Trump, unable to distinguish between private life and public service, carried his practice of requiring nondisclosure agreements into the Presidency, demanding that senior White House staff sign N.D.A.s. According to the Washington Post, at least one of them, in draft form, included this language: “I understand that the United States Government or, upon completion of the term(s) of Mr. Donald J. Trump, an authorized representative of Mr. Trump, may seek any remedy available to enforce this Agreement including, but not limited to, application for a court order prohibiting disclosure of information in breach of this Agreement.” Aides warned him that, for White House employees, such agreements are likely not legally enforceable. The White House counsel, Don McGahn, refused to distribute them; eventually, he relented, and the chief of staff, Reince Priebus, pressured employees to sign them.​

MOAR:

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

www.newyorker.com

Id burn everything if i were him. Democrats would try to twist a request for coffee into some kind of criminal conspiracy.

Of course you would, criminals burn evidence.

Im not a criminal.