Columbia history professor Matthew Connelly's recent New York Times op-ed reveals that the National Archives is letting millions of documents detailing sexual abuse and assaults against immigrants held in ICE detention centers be destroyed. Connelly says this is in keeping with Trump's personal practice of deliberately tearing up his papers and throwing them away, thwarting long-standing traditions of basic White House record-keeping and flying in the face of rules mandated by the Presidential Records Act. "The National Archives tried to do the right thing in this case: They sent staff to the White House to Scotch-tape those papers back together again — I'm not even kidding," Connelly says, adding that those archivists were subsequently fired. "I think more of us need to pay attention. In effect, this White House is being allowed to destroy evidence about things we may never know about."
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