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To the editor:
The following is the difference between misinformation and fact-checking:
"The Presidential Records Act of 1978 can be found in full splendor in the safekeeping of the National Archives. It states: 'Any records created or received by the president as part of his constitutional, statutory or ceremonial duties are the property of the U.S. government and will be managed by NARA at the end of the administration.
"When it comes to the office of the president, all official documents belong to history. They are ours for posterity." (archives.com)
In the last 50 years, a handful of persons have taken classified documents home with them. All but one either returned the documents or invited the Department of Justice in for a full search of their properties.
One did not: President Donald J. Trump.
Unsuccessfully, for a year, NARA requested the return of the national security documents.
Trump refused, so the DOJ was asked to intervene.
Before Trump's attorney, Evan Corcoran, was instructed to look only in the storage room, Trump's toadies shifted boxes of documents to other areas, the bedroom, bathroom, ballroom and who knows where else. Corcoran found 38 documents and then had another attorney sign a certification that there were no more documents. That was false. A search warrant was issued, and 100 boxes later, a missing Russian file, a missing Iranian attack plan file and more files still were missing. We still don't have the sum total of missing documents.
Surprised?
Is the North Korea file missing? Dear Leader writes love letters to Trump, who finds him so smart. Dear Leader starves his people to build nuclear weapons. Fly me to the moon.
How about the Saudi file? Is it still missing? Maybe the Saudis have the missing Iranian file. Is that why Jared Kushner, the real estate guy, received $2 billion from the Saudis? Even the Saudi government was skeptical of Kushner as a hedge fund boy. What's all that about? OK -- gotcha. Bought and paid for, I presume.
Oh me, oh my, then the security camera room and all of the taping system was flooded by an outdoor leaking pool. I hope nobody was electrocuted. Were the tapes and audio files intact? I hope nobody was trying to delete certain items and activity. Convenient -- sounds criminal, like destroying evidence and corruption -- I mean obstruction.
What's concerning is Trump's slavish adoration of Putin. Notice how he never says anything harsh about him, like murderer, poisoner or tyrant? Is the Russian file still missing. Putin's tool -- a U.S. president. Frightening.
Only a documents-for-sale thief, or worse, a spy or traitor, would refuse to return our national secrets.
Lord God have mercy on us and protect us.
Diana Kim Gagich
Wellsburg