Ex-National Archivist Thinks Trump Is Hiding His Records to Avoid ‘Prison Time’

[butters]

With the National Archives now at the center of a historic fight over records between the current and former president, the two people who once ran that agency are both condemning Trump administration officials for trying to keep documents secret.

Don W. Wilson and John W. Carlin each had years-long stints as the official archivist of the United States, overseeing the massive effort of sorting through presidential records that tell the country’s story.

And they’re dismayed at former President Donald Trump’s aggressive attempts to keep his White House records locked away from the special congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection—and his potential role in it.

“Given how frantic they are... there are things in those records that are going to make real trouble. I’m talking about prison time,” Carlin mused to The Daily Beast. “It reinforces the fact that they know they're in real trouble if these things are released—particularly if they’re released soon.”

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Wilson, the other former national archivist, told The Daily Beast that keeping official documents on personal devices is a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act.

“You aren't supposed to conduct personal business on your cell phone. If it is, then it’s an official record. Is this official business? If it is, then it’s technically a presidential record, even if it's on your personal cell phone,” Wilson said. “All of it is supposed to be turned over at the end of the administration.”

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[pecksniff]

When you're president, booking a tee time is official business.

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

Is there anyone out there who DOESN'T think Trump is hiding his records to avoid prison time?

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Is there anyone out there who DOESN'T think Trump is hiding his records to avoid prison time?

Trump can start serving his sentence right after he gets out from that Russian collusion rap.

 

[butters]

Is there anyone out there who DOESN'T think Trump is hiding his records to avoid prison time?

the numpty who posted directly after you

 

[Bud_Spencer]

the numpty who posted directly after you

Like the Bourbons, you southpaws learn nothing and remember nothing. How many triumphant announcements came from CNN and one of the pseudopods of the NBC amoeba that "the walls are closing in on Trump!"? Dozens, and each one was hole as dry as your own.

 

[LittleDixie]

Should have just destroyed the evidence like Hillary did with her email server.

 

[bellisarius]

And why should anyone bestow credibility on a group of public servants who have shown themselves to be either political partisans, wholly incompetent in carrying out their duties or worse, both?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Don W. Wilson (born December 7, 1942) was appointed the Archivist of the United States, serving from December 4, 1987, to March 24, 1993.

John William Carlin (born August 3, 1940)[1] is an American educator and politician who served as the 40th Governor of Kansas from 1979 to 1987, and the Archivist of the United States from May 30, 1995, to February 15, 2005

Neither have first-hand knowledge. Their opinion is no better than Bart Simpson's. What was Bart Simpson have to say about this?


...confirmation bias comes up yet again.

 

[bellisarius]

Don W. Wilson (born December 7, 1942) was appointed the Archivist of the United States, serving from December 4, 1987, to March 24, 1993.

John William Carlin (born August 3, 1940)[1] is an American educator and politician who served as the 40th Governor of Kansas from 1979 to 1987, and the Archivist of the United States from May 30, 1995, to February 15, 2005

Neither have first-hand knowledge. Their opinion is no better than Bart Simpson's. What was Bart Simpson have to say about this?


...confirmation bias comes up yet again.

It was under Carlin's watch that "Socks" Berger stole the classified Clinton documents from the archives. In 2009 it was discovered that a hard drive from the Clinton years containing volumes of Clinton administration records was missing. It is unknown when the hard drive "disappeared."

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Maybe Adam Schiff should investigate. Or Robert Mueller.

 

[Champakian]

Adam would find incontrovertible facts that he would never release to the public.

 

[coati]

Like the Bourbons, you southpaws learn nothing and remember nothing. How many triumphant announcements came from CNN and one of the pseudopods of the NBC amoeba that "the walls are closing in on Trump!"? Dozens, and each one was hole as dry as your own.

This is only true because of two factors, the composition of the Senate and the Jim Crow Filibuster Rule in the Senate. Both impeachment conviction attempts failed because of those two factors.

Trump needs to be tried outside of the partisan Senate, which may happen at some point.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Trump needs to be tried outside of the partisan Senate, which may happen at some point.

Tried for what?

 

[bellisarius]

Tried for what?

Racism. *nods*

 

[pecksniff]

And why should anyone bestow credibility on a group of public servants who have shown themselves to be either political partisans, wholly incompetent in carrying out their duties or worse, both?

What, the ones at the National Archives?!

 

[Rightguide]

Sounds like something Barack Obama and the Clintons did.