President Trump to be sued for Intentionally Destroying Presidential Records
Two groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW, and the National Security Archive, have filed a lawsuit against the president, arguing that he “appears to be violating the Presidential Records Act and the Constitution’s requirement that the president ‘take care’ that the laws be faithfully executed.”
The groups specifically allege that the president has gone on a campaign to destroy tweets and that administration officials regularly use other means of correspondence, such as special apps that automatically delete read emails. The apps also allow for private communications among top staff that effectively cut the public and the press out from learning of the goings on of the president.
The law suit alleges that in evading “transparency and government accountability,” through secret communications practices, the administration is:
knowingly prevent(ing) the proper preservation of records the Defendants generate or receive . . . (and are) usurp(ing) . . . agency duties and responsibilities by consolidating power in the White House.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/24/1674966/-President-Trump-to-be-sued-for-Intentionally-Destroying-Presidential-Records?detail=emaildkre
* Ed Note: Evidently square brackets are not illegal on DU, so in the quote in the last paragraph I have substituted () for brackets.
