Saturday, February 08, 2025

Trump dismisses US Archivist

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States... The national archivist is responsible for overseeing government records and heads the National Archives, an agency Trump has repeatedly criticized since it alerted the Justice Department to Trump's handling of classified documents in early 2022.

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... The FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 as part of an investigation into removal of official presidential records from the White House after his first term. The National Archives had been seeking the documents.

He was later indicted for illegally retaining classified material. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped that case and one accusing him of attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 election after Trump's 2024 election win.

Sergio Gor, the director of the White House's Presidential Personnel Office, announced the dismissal of the archivist, at Trump's direction, on X. "We thank Colleen Shogan for her service," Gor said.

Shogan, who was not in office when the documents investigation began, said on LinkedIn that Trump had fired her without citing a reason or cause. "I have zero regrets - I absolutely did my best every day for the National Archives and the American people," she wrote. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-08 12:55 PM

@#1 ... I absolutely did my best every day for the National Archives and the American people," she wrote. ... ...

In Pres Trump's eyes, that was the problem.

She served the American people and not Pres Trump.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-08 12:56 PM

She backed the wrong faction of the oligarchy.

#3 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-02-08 03:01 PM

The orange rapist's archivists reside in Beijing, Moscow and Riyadh.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-08 03:05 PM

@#4 ... The orange rapist's archivists reside in Beijing, Moscow and Riyadh. ...

Possibly. There still seems to be some missing classified documents, some of the folders found at Mar-a-Lago were empty.

Who knows where the contents of those folders not reside.
wThis was after Pres Trump had said that everything was returned.


Kudos to Ms Shogan for putting the American people, and the Constitution, first and foremost with her actions.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-08 03:34 PM

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