Thank you for the work you do, Kristin, and for raising this issue. Watching blatant revisionism in real time is really unnerving.
If he appoints a partisan “yes person” to the national archivist position, can that person (in theory) order the actual destruction of documents and digital files that have been archived by previous persons in…
Thank you for the work you do, Kristin, and for raising this issue. Watching blatant revisionism in real time is really unnerving.
If he appoints a partisan “yes person” to the national archivist position, can that person (in theory) order the actual destruction of documents and digital files that have been archived by previous persons in the post? Or order they be changed to reflect Trump’s version of things like the classified documents he kept, J6 records and proceedings, etc?
I’m pretty sure all those things would be illegal because there are laws about what the National Archives is supposed to do. But as we are seeing with various firings and other activities, this regime doesn’t care about obeying the laws. And when the Executive Branch is lawless and the legislative branch is gutless, the lawbreakers get away with it.
Thank you for the work you do, Kristin, and for raising this issue. Watching blatant revisionism in real time is really unnerving.
If he appoints a partisan “yes person” to the national archivist position, can that person (in theory) order the actual destruction of documents and digital files that have been archived by previous persons in the post? Or order they be changed to reflect Trump’s version of things like the classified documents he kept, J6 records and proceedings, etc?
I would imagine all this is possible.
I’m pretty sure all those things would be illegal because there are laws about what the National Archives is supposed to do. But as we are seeing with various firings and other activities, this regime doesn’t care about obeying the laws. And when the Executive Branch is lawless and the legislative branch is gutless, the lawbreakers get away with it.
Extremely concerning.