I thought that ALL government records---correspondence,

[Atticus]

read-outs, transcripts of meetings and conversations, written or recorded contemporaneous notes of such meetings--- were the property of the US government, i.e., the American people. I further understood that there were laws requiring that such records be preserved and, in fact, that it was against the law to conceal or destroy them.

So, Trump surely still has these translator's notes of his private meeting with Vlad and will produce them when requested since he "has nothing to hide".

Right?

[sfwriter]

1. Republicans treat such laws with disdain.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/crew-lawsuit-reveals-83-of-bush-era-emails-were-never-archived/

[MurrayDelph]

13. ... when they are in charge

and it's about Republicans.

When it's about Democrats, the merest hint that these laws might have been bent is a major cause celebre.

[sfwriter]

19. yeah...

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. When he took them...

I doubt it was to preserve them. He’s more of an idiot then commonly thought if he didn’t destroy them immediately.

[cynatnite]

3. Over 20 million missing emails from the bush/cheney administration...

It's normal for them.

[duforsure]

4. And destruction of them is another crime.

Which I think he's been doing all along, and telling others to do also. He'll claim his meeting notes are gone, but the House will expose from the witness everything that was said, and Mueller will already know it too. trump is also going to have to answer for why all his aides and administration people falsely filled out their security clearance forms, and my guess is he's assured them to do that , and they would be protected. They all lied on them for him. Also all the other evidence all his aides have destroyed will become know too. This makes it willful to deceive showing their intent.

[kimbutgar]

5. He probably ate them

I remember reading he ate notes that he didn’t want anyone to see. It would not surprise me if those notes ended up in his mouth?


Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman continues to keep her name in the mix of Love and Hip Hop: White House, now claiming that your boy, President AssHandles Von BackAcne ate paper allegedly filled with notes after meeting with then-lawyer Michael Cohen.

“I saw him put a note in his mouth. Since Trump was ever the germaphobe, I was shocked he appeared to be chewing and swallowing the paper. It must have been something very, very sensitive,” according to an excerpt of the book obtained by The Washington Post.


https://www.theroot.com/trump-reportedly-ate-notes-after-meeting-with-michael-c-1828274773

[MaryMagdaline]

6. But Hillary's emails

[LiberalArkie]

17. People would still be thinking that HRC leaked out a tremendous amount of information

if the FBI had not investigated and went on the record as they did.

[marylandblue]

7. Trump has a habit of tearing up documents that must be preserved

So there is a group of people in the White House who retrieve and glue back the fragments. Maybe someone got to these notes in time?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164

[clementine613]

8. Your mistake....

... was thinking that the Rethugs were human beings and bothered about such things like laws. Vermin don't care about laws. Try passing a law telling a rat what it can or cannot do. It doesn't care. Rethugs are no different.

[mastermind]

9. when a fake president like tRump considers himself as "the state" is when you run into problems.

Nixon pulled the same crap.

[Historic NY]

10. Image result for Presidential Records Act history.house.gov The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 19

[link:https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html|]

[Fuzzpope]

11. Democrats already tried

To obtain these transcript records and/or interview the translator, Republicans blocked them.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/trump-putin-house-democrats-822871

[littlemissmartypants]

12. .

Seriously?

I wouldn't be surprised if they have minions rewriting the records of his history in office as we speak.

Time to watch the playbook.

The Dictator's Playbook PBS Series.

A very timely series. I posted the first episode in Video and MM a few days ago.

Here's the link.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017527491

I'm really hoping this is a retorical question.

Thanks for the post, Atticus.

[AZ8theist]

14. RUSSHER?? IF YOURE LISTENING!!

PLEASE PRODUCE THE NOTES FROM OUR MEETING TO PROVE I'M NOT A TRAITOR TO MY COUNTRY!!!

crickets......crickets...

[2naSalit]

16. LOL

[malaise]

15. It's simple

ITTMF!

[Honeycombe8]

18. Probably not every piece of paper & communication.

"Official" business communications and documents are supposed to be kept, but I don't know if it's a law or a rule or just policy.

I read that there is some sort of requirement about transcripts of meetings with foreign leaders, for obvious reasons, but I don't know if that's true.