I don’t believe this, and yet of course I believe this, because how could they possibly do anything differently? Of course they are …

According to a new article by NPR, historians and activists are putting increasing pressure upon the Trump administration for withholding documents relating to foreign relationships – including Russia, and about sensitive policies like immigration, far from the public, where they could be scrutinized and analyzed, all so that they can be collectively destroyed at some point in the future.

“Historians and activists charge that the White House has failed to keep notes of the president’s meetings with foreign leaders, including with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that other papers, including records of alleged abuses of undocumented immigrants, could be destroyed,” … “Immigration activists fear that records relating to the treatment of undocumented immigrants — including detainee deaths, complaints about medical conditions and alleged sexual assault and abuse of detainees — could be destroyed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”

It is just another “Trump thing.” The moment you hear it, you feel outraged and mystified – there are laws that are supposed to apply to keeping presidential records, and then you sit back and try to imagine it being any other way. You can’t. Of course the Trump administration is collectively keeping as much as they can out of the public eye, and of course stuff will be destroyed the moment they think they can get away with it.

According to Emily Creighton, an attorney for the American Immigration Council which has filed FOIA requests for documents, the notion that the information can be held in secrecy, only to possibly be destroyed in 10, 20 or 30 years is “mind-boggling.”

Right.

Until you think about it for a second and then it becomes exactly what you expected all along.

“It’s almost as though we are, you know, erasing our nation’s conscience,” she said in an interview.

Almost.

But there are a lot of people in this nation that realize what is happening and are outraged.

Let us all ask ourselves a question. What is the first thing that comes to mind when we hear about a businessperson or government official that gets angry when people are taking notes?

“Historians are fighting on another front with the Trump administration: over the preservation or, in some cases, the creation of presidential records. President Trump is reportedly averse to having note-takers present at his meetings with foreign leaders and is said to have torn up some notes, in violation of the Presidential Records Act.”

When you get your ass on the phone and say (paraphrasing, of course, like Schiff) “Give me the dirt on Biden or no sugar!!) then what is “tearing up notes” in violation of the Presidential Records Act? Of course they are doing this.

The Trump administration is like an iceberg, made of “heavy water,” we see only the tip, maybe 5% – and keep hoping that someday the dam will burst and we’ll see the bottom, all kinds of stuff that … and then we realize that there’s basically no “proof” of anything. It has been destroyed. It will be like Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion, so much smoke, but the burning logs were buried or hauled off.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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