Posted on 06/12/2018 7:34:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A pair of former White House aides demonstrated on Tuesday how they would reconstruct the papers President Trump frequently ripped apart.
Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr. said on CNN that the process was like a puzzle, and laid out how they would reassemble the papers Trump tore apart so they could be filed and saved correctly.
"We literally had to spend hours per day piecing together the puzzle prior to taping them," Young told host Alisyn Camerota after going through the process in which he carefully spread out ripped pieces of paper on a desk and reconstructed them.
Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House is mandated to preserve all documents that the president touches.
Lartey and Young, who have since been dismissed, said they spent months piecing and taping together a variety of documents Trump would tear apart.
The two former records management analysts told Politico that staffers had been tasked with this assignment as recently as this spring. They added that it stood in stark contrast to the way the Obama administration managed records.
“We had to endure this under the Trump administration,” Young told Politico. “I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’ We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr dumpster divers more resume material.
It would be helpful if he just ripped his papers once, ala Cersei Lannister!
Who cares.
Who cares.
“Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House is mandated to preserve all documents that the president touches.”
Suspend the Presidential Records Act, or issue a Signing Statement stating that the Presidential Records Act may at the discretion of the current president not be recognized.
It helps historians in the future to get a perspective on these various documents when they’re all tape back together
Oh for Pete’s sake, how hard would it have been to print another copy?
Oh, yeah, I could just see the political witch hunt over this... ‘So you’re saying you just TOSSED the ripped up pieces of paper the president touched and spent a minute printing another copy to file away?’
‘No, Senator, we recycled the torn up paper and didn’t bother printing another copy of the document, leaving it instead in digital form. Why waste paper making another copy to live on in a box in a warehouse?’
Yep, yep, that’s a witch hunt which would make the careers of liberals... The public would flock to such a campaign to punish those who failed to tape back together paper.
WTFITFS?
I make $60k per year and I empty trash cans.................What a bunch of self important a-holes!..............
More of that hard hitting journalist work by CNN. No surprise. SHS was right when she said the media chooses to focus and report stories most people don’t care about.
Hey you - empty that damned trash can - then get me a cup of coffee you slacker....
Put the pieces in an envelope with the original Schumer letter.
“” We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.””
Maybe you would like to empty trash cans for $10,000 a year?
Fake news.
Who cares?
I don’t.
I”m sure thereare no missing documents from previous administrations.
“I make $60k per year and I empty trash cans...”
My staff laughed about that all the time!
Customer: “May I speak to the Manager?”
Staff: “She’s scrubbing toilets right now but will be with you shortly.”
I NEVER asked my staff to do anything I wouldn’t or hadn’t done in the past.
‘Self-important’ is right! These people wouldn’t last two minutes working for me! ;)
Someone was just all kinds of eager for their fifteen minutes, weren’t they?
I would be happy taping paper together for $60,000/year. Teachers in Alabama would be thrilled to make that much, and they do far more important work for the country.
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