Two damaged Trump/Pence campaign signs lie on grass

Trump and the Presidential Records Act

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 11, 2022

Josh Dawsey, a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post, discusses new reporting questioning Donald Trump's adherence to the Presidential Records Act, which requires the preservation of written communications related to a president’s official duties, after the former president was found ripping up documents "both sensitive and mundane" during his time in office.

→‘He never stopped ripping things up’: Inside Trump’s relentless document destruction habits

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