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Posted on 05/20/2025 9:52:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected — from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the cloud, safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity.
Now, the Trump administration has sought to expand the executive branch’s power to shield from public view key administration initiatives. Officials have used apps like Signal that can auto-delete messages containing sensitive information rather than retaining them for record-keeping. And they have shaken up the National Archives leadership.
To historians and archivists, it points to the possibility that President Trump will leave less for the nation’s historical record than nearly any president before him.
Such an eventuality creates a conundrum: How will experts — and even ordinary Americans — piece together what occurred when those charged with setting aside the artifacts properly documenting history refuse to do so? How to preserve history?
The Trump administration says it’s the “most transparent in history,” citing the president’s fondness for taking questions from reporters nearly every day. But flooding the airwaves, media outlets and the internet with all things Trump isn’t the same as keeping records that document the inner workings of an administration, historians caution.
“He thinks he controls history,” says Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian who served as founding director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. “He wants to control what Americans ultimately find out about the truth of his administration, and that’s dangerous.”
Trump long refused to release his tax returns despite every other major White House candidate and president having done so since Jimmy Carter. And, today, White House stenographers still record every word Trump utters, but many of their transcriptions are languishing in the White House press office without authorization for release — meaning there’s...
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Maybe check ChomomJoe’s garage
Based on ...
Sources?
Experts?
Anonymous insiders?
Ouija Board?
Author’s backside?
Actually makes sense. Just get things done. Don’t leave any evidence behind. They’ll just use it against you.
Nixon went the other way, and it didn’t work out for him.
And so?
Just another thing to worry about. Not.
Oh really? The crooked politicians over the last few decades, have gone out of their way to hide and shred their documents as their filth and corruption swamped the body politic.
What horse plucky the LA times is trying to pedal…
From the times of the founding fathers to some of the other great presidents that followed, there is little of value that’s come from the crap leadership that’s been put forth to the American public, especially this last generation.
Few things that are written, are even worth saving.
Until now.
Trump is doing things that will truly help not just our citizens but inspire other countries to throw the bumbs out ruining their societies.
Instead, we get the blathering of idiots like the author of this article.
When tariffs actually work, job numbers go up, gas prices go down, while the economy looks good and the general public is generally happy, there has to be something that you can use to impeach the guy.
So, if there are documents missing (Obama/Clinton/Biden) and you don’t know they’re missing (Obama/Clinton/Biden), how does he know DJT will leave fewer documents than the current record holders (BHO/WJC/HRC/FJB)?
The abusive raid on Mar-a-Lago was coordinated with the National Archives and was intended to destroy Trump’s candidacy. Too bad about the push back.
Did Biden leave detail records of his meetings, decision making process, and so on? Including who decided and implemented certain decisions?
The LATimes leaves piles of evidence daily that it is not a source for facts, but rather a propaganda rag.
“Did Biden leave detailed records of his meetings, decision making process, and so on?”
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...Or who used an AutoPen to implement law?
President Trump hasn’t torn down any statues, but in fact, restored Curchill’s.
Doesn’t matter, “historians and archivists” will say whatever they want about Trump anyway, documents be damned.
Just another anti-Trump blog.
We sure as hell cannot rely on microfilmed newspaper pages!
Seems like this is what Obama did for 2 terms and whoever was in charge for the past 4 years did.
Democrat selfie moments abounding, are they stupid or blind?
The National Archives was used against him POLITICALLY! F them!
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