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Feb 9, 2022

Unexpected Warriors

One of the important life lessons we should learn by the time we get about halfway through junior high school is that you don't fuck with librarians.

It would seem Mr Trump and his Qult45 devotees are getting a refresher.

18 US Code § 2071(B) willfully and unlawfully removing and destroying Presidential documents is punishable by 3 years in prison a fine and disqualification from serving in public office.

I'm tellin' ya - the people we take for granted as being meek and mild are the ones who'll step up and save our asses. Because that's how it's always been.


NYT: (pay wall)

‘The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu,’ by Joshua Hammer

A story of librarians in Mali standing up to asshole religion freaks who sought to keep the truth from a world that deserves to know that truth.

But anyway - to clear things up - there was no raid on Mar-A-Lago.

But c'mon - nobody's going to doubt the high probability that Trump would have to be forced to comply with the Presidential Records law, the same as we have to force him to follow every other law. Especially knowing about his habit of tearing up official notes of official White House meetings.

Besides the prospect of middle-aged women in comfortable shoes flashing their badges as they storm the storage lockers at Mar-A-Lago is pretty damned funny. I just can't help myself.

Palm Beach Daily News:

The National Archives last month obtained 15 boxes of presidential records that were being stored at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club.

Keeping the boxes of records at Mar-a-Lago violated the Presidential Records Act, which requires that the government keep all forms of documents and communications related to a president's or vice president's official duties.

"As required by the Presidential Records Act the records should have been transferred to NARA from the White House at the end of the Trump Administration in January 2021,” the National Archives and Records Administration said in a statement on Monday.

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