Michael Beschloss & Laurence Tribe warn that Trump will try to get rid of incriminating documents

[highplainsdem]

And btw, I saw a tweet from John Schindler a couple days ago agreeing with this and saying that Trump appointing loyalists in the last days of his administration is more about getting rid of evidence than plotting a coup.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[soothsayer]

1. Duh, ha

[dchill]

2. Stop the steal!

It's ALWAYS projection. ALWAYS!

[GoCubsGo]

3. Good thing there are multiple copies around.

At least one set is in Letitia James' hands. I'm sure SDNY and others have copies of everything, aswell. But, yeah. It's all a big attempt to destroy evidence, rather than a coup.

[Leghorn21]

4. I figure they've been ditching evidence/documents for years now...not much left to destroy, really

And the worries that LOSER45 will divulge/SELL state secrets to adversaries after he leaves?? - meh, he’s been doing that for years now, I HAVE NO DOUBT

***Just get him outta there please***

[Phoenix61]

5. All most all records now are computerized.

I’m counting on lower level career civil service backing up computer files. I doubt they’ve been happy being treated like crap the past 4 years.

[crickets]

16. +1

[triron]

24. probably

[LaMouffette]

6. This is probably the biggest reason they don't want Joe Biden to have access to intelligence info.

And they sure as hell don't want him anywhere near the secret server. Remember the secret server????

[FM123]

7. They are probably contacting the "Four Seasons" adjacent crematorium right now

"could you throw some papers in there for us?"

[Mme. Defarge]

15. OMG! O Mon Dieu!

Mais, naturellement!

[FM123]

19. You make me wish I could speak French....

Glad I could make you chuckle!

[Windy City Charlie]

8. That would explain

That would explain why they're holding off on any transitioning

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. They're probably wiping or destroying hard drives,

since whatever paper copies exist originated and are stored on some computer somewhere.

[Patterson]

13. Mike Huckabee had his hard drives run over with a steam roller when he left governorship in Arkansas

[drray23]

10. nearly impossible to do nowadays.

we are in a digital age. There will be documents left over.

[Turbineguy]

11. These are trump people

they are probably making copies to buy their way out of prosecution.

[StarfishSaver]

12. I have no doubt of this

I doubt it will work, though.

[smirkymonkey]

14. What exactly was that moving van doing outside the White House the other day?

[lettucebe]

17. Hard to imagine they don't digitize everything and have multiple backups, but these guys?

No way they can hide four years of crime tho

[Stinky The Clown]

18. I like these guys but geeze. Are they studying for Masters of The Obvious degrees?

[G_j]

20. well yeah

duh?

[a kennedy]

21. I'm sure they've been having burn parties since the election......whether orange

piece of shit knows about it or not. Papers ARE GONE. JMHO. HOW CAN HE EVER BE TRUSTED WITH PROTOCOL. HE’S A IMBECILE, A CHILD, A DUFOOS, and his handlers have been doing this shit all his “career”.

[gratuitous]

22. And why wouldn't they do that?

Jose Rodriguez found out that the penalty for destroying evidence of crimes against humanity was far more lenient than the penalties for those crimes. He's the CIA operative who destroyed the tapes of the torture sessions at Abu Ghraib prison. Instead of being held accountable for its torture regime, the entire Bush the Stupider administration was let off in the name of looking forward to the future and not criminalizing political differences.

And then, as our reward for overlooking those crimes, the United States got the Trump administration.

[Ilsa]

23. Nothing will be left for mf45's library!

Just old copies of Forbes that Stormy used to spank donnie, and the fake Time covers.