TWGB: Put It All Together, It Spells?

 

In statement, National Archives say they received some documents from the Trump White House that were ripped apart and reassembled with tape "along with a number of torn-up records that had not been reconstructed by the White House." https://t.co/hiUBYHUbIU

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 31, 2022

Of all of the darkly amusing things about the way Trump's mind seems to work, the automatic secrecy is most troubling. After all, for example, NDA's are for celebrities and corporate structures, not governments. This isn't the first time we are hearing about Trump's fetish for destroying business memoranda; he's even alleged to have tried eating his own words. 

But imagine the thought process, here: Shoot, we've taken notes on a criminal conspiracy...again. I know (rip, rip, rip). But should we be keeping these records? A-ha! Executive privilege... 

Many people are saying the reason these records are kept is because they are not supposed to memorialize episodes of doing crime. 

It's also kind of funny because government is big. So when various Trump associates went trying to see if either DHS or DOJ had authority to seize the voting machines, plenty of people would have heard about it. If Trump and company tried to pressure Pence to overturn the election (which is exactly what Trump recently copped to), plenty of people on Pence's staff, like Marc Short, undoubtedly knew details.  And I think people lower down on the chain, who have worked in and around government longer than Trump had, probably understand the limitations of their stalling tactics. 

But they are certainly putting up a brave obstruction effort, anyway, aren't they? Is it because, bad as it looks, it really is bad?