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Trump’s document shredding boosted by DOJ memo about records: veteran reporter (opens in new tab)

President Donald Trump is trying to gut the Presidential Records Act (PRA), declaring the post-Watergate law unconstitutional and claiming his stolen documents from the first term are his personal property to shred, flush, or hide at will.On Wednesday afternoon, the Justice Department issued a radical legal opinion that defies decades of precedent and threatens to erase the paper trail of the Trump administration's most damaging decisions. Courts are racing to intervene, but the fight exposes...

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