text: Trump Habitually & Illegally Tears Up Presidential Papers - Paperblog
  Trump Habitually & Illegally Tears Up Presidential Papers
  (Photo of Trump tossing away a "presidential paper" is by Mary Schwalm / Getty Images.)
  All presidential papers are supposed to be preserved. They are placed in the National Archives (and sometimes moved later to a presidential library). This is not something to be done at the discretion of a president -- it is a federal law.
  But it's a law that Donald Trump regularly breaks. He has a habit of tearing up documents when he is finished with them, and tossing them on the floor or into the trash. I don't know whether Trump is ignorant of the law (surely someone has told him) or just doesn't care. I suspect it is the latter, since he seems to think he is above the law.
  The following is part of an excellent article by Annie Karni at Politico.com:
  "We got Scotch tape, the clear kind," Lartey recalled in an interview. "You found pieces and taped them back together and then you gave it back to the supervisor." The restored papers would then be sent to the National Archives to be properly filed away. . . .