The National Archives has referred Trump's destruction of documents to the Departmentnt of Justice

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It was reported early on in Trump's presidency that he routinely ripped up notes, schedules, briefing materials, texts, emails, etc. That was illegal because, according to the Presidential Records Act, all materials relating to his term as president were required to be preserved and turned over to the National Archives at the end of his term. He was told repeatedly by White House counsel and other aides that he had to stop doing that but he refused to do so. There is even a rumor that he once ATE a note to destroy it but paper sounds like too healthy of an ingredient for him to consume given what we know about his diet. The White House had to dedicate personnel to the sole task of rifling through the trash (or around the floor) to collect torn up bits of paper and then tape them back together. Can you imagine if that was your job? After Trump lost his bid to block the January 6 House Select Committee from obtaining over 700 pages of documents they received some taped-together documents and even some that were still just in pieces. The National Archives also recently obtained 15 boxes of documents and records that Trump improperly/illegally took with him to Mar-A-Lago including his "love letter" from Kim Jong-Un. I would imagine that one wasn't torn up. Anyway today the National Archives has referred Trump's intentional destruction of official Presidential records to the Department of Justice. It will be interesting to see what (if anything) comes of that. Merrick Garland doesn't seem to be doing much about all of Trump's criming while in the White House but who knows what is going on behind the scenes.