Once lone ago in my personal life, I was responsible for personnel records for all employees of West Virginia University. In fact, I actually worked with each new employee to get them on the payroll, signed up for benefits, introduce them to the Employees Handbook, and more... Key for me was that I had also taken the business courses in high school that prepared me for handling the full scope of exactly what records management was all about...
Because of this, what occurred immediately after Trump's first term when he, instead of turning all records back to the national archivist office, chose to remove them from government facilities, storing them in backrooms and other areas that provided no security whatsoever, it immediately caught my attention.
I was appalled just how badly that entire investigation and retrieval was, as well as the retribution that was being sought because Trump got caught stealing what was not his, but, rather, belonged in government archives!
And he has never stopped trying to attempt he has a legal right to anything and everything he wants, including the White House...
I was, therefore, interested in a latest attempt to try to gain control again!
President Donald Trump's administration has declared war on public records law, former prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on her Substack Thursday — and in doing so, executed a "power grab" and "overruled the Supreme Court," or at least laid the groundwork to try to.
"Enacted in 1978, in the wake of Watergate, the Presidential Records Act (PRA) makes all records created or received by the President, Vice President, and their staff in the course of official duties the property of the United States government," wrote Vance. "The PRA is the law. It’s clear. Presidents are advised about the requirement when they take office. So the reports that Trump was destroying his records should have been taken as an early warning sign of his utter disregard for the law. Instead, they were treated more like a cute affectation, a sign that this was an outsider who was new to being a political insider. At most, he was a little difficult to work for."
Already, Trump treated this law as optional in his first term, tearing up important documents and forcing White House staff to painstakingly tape them back together — and his removal of thousands of documents, including classified information, to Mar-a-Lago formed part of special counsel Jack Smith's criminal case against him... (continue to read)
Killing History
DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) declares the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional
Joyce Vance
Apr 08, 2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
―George Orwell, 1984
Enacted in 1978, in the wake of Watergate, the Presidential Records Act (PRA) makes all records created or received by the President, Vice President, and their staff in the course of official duties the property of the United States government. They are explicitly not the personal property of the officials whose desks they cross. The law mandates they be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as soon as a President leaves office... See full Article
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