MSNBC - A new Associated Press analysis of President Donald Trump's many methods for destroying records raises the remarkable possibility that the Trump administration could "leave less for the nation’s historical record than nearly any before it." It's a useful lens for understanding how Trump conceals information to evade accountability and undermine democracy.
As the AP notes, there are many different ways that Trump is making it impossible to track what his administration is doing:
The Trump administration is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal records and data it finds disagreeable. It has sought to expand the executive branch’s power to shield from public view the government-slashing efforts of Elon Musk’s team and other key administration initiatives. Officials have used apps such as Signal that can auto-delete messages containing sensitive information rather than retaining them for recordkeeping. And they have shaken up the National Archives leadership and even ordered the rewriting of history on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
This all comes as HuffPost recently estimated that the White House has declined to release transcripts for about 80% of the president’s speeches and interactions with the press so far.
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