Opinion by Eugene Robinson: Trump’s document destruction isn’t something to paper over or shrug off
and letters demanding information relating to Clinton’s email practices — which, you will recall, ended up being a nothingburger.
They fished for facts — or politically useful innuendo — from the FBI, the attorney general, the State Department, the office of the Director of National Intelligence and a host of other government agencies, as well as several private technology firms. In one month alone, September 2016, the GOP-led House Oversight and Reform Committee held five days of “emergency” hearings about Clinton’s emails and issued a dozen subpoenas.
Clinton was indeed careless. But Trump appears to have been both deliberate and persistent in his unlawful destruction of documents. Either the Presidential Records Act means something, or it doesn’t. Congress must choose.This shouldn’t be added to the workload of the select committee investigating Jan. 6, which has bigger fish to fry. It is quite possible to have multiple committees conducting overlapping investigations, as Republicans did with Clinton’s emails and the Benghazi attack.
And unlike that GOP extravaganza, hearings into Trump’s handling of official and possibly classified papers would not be a purely political exercise. There is no question that those 15 boxes of documents had to be retrieved. There is no question that some official documents had been torn up. And as for whether any were flushed, call White House staff to testify under oath. Now that’s a hearing I would definitely watch.
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