There are government officials whose only job is to tape Trump's papers back together
Under the Presidential Records Act, all memos, emails, letters, and other papers President Trump touches must be preserved and sent to the National Archives, but that's hard to do when Trump rips documents up to shreds when he's finished with them.
Solomon Lartey, a former records management analyst, and Reginald Young Jr., a former senior records management analyst, told Politico they were among the government officials tasked with using Scotch tape to piece the documents back together. White House aides said Trump likes to rip papers up when he's finished with them, and even when told the paperwork needed to go to the archives, he couldn't kick the habit.
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Young told Politico he was in shock when asked to spend his days taping shredded paper back together. "We're making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this," he said. "It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans." Young and Lartey no longer work in the department — both were terminated this spring and told Politico they have no idea why — but the restoration of paperwork was still taking place before they left.
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