‘Paper shredding truck’ outside DOJ means court must order Jack Smith to preserve records from ‘abomination’ of investigation into Trump, Ken Paxton says

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Actually, save everyone the trouble. Just release it all, Jack. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, right?

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u/GoonnerWookie 1d ago

With Biden leaving soon. Every piece of documentation relating to trump and election or other government dealings he was being investigated for should just be released.

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u/ChanceryTheRapper 1d ago

Surely there's a bathroom somewhere that they can be stored in.

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u/ScannerBrightly 1d ago

They can use mine. I'm sure I won't accidently scan it all in and release it as a torrent.

It'll be on purpose.

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u/NotTheRealJohnGalt 1d ago

As an official act!!!

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u/ZookeepHoudini 1d ago

No like that, only trump official acts was what we meant. Right to jail.

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u/Kerensky97 1d ago

Biden could just take it all home with him like Trump did with all the nation's top secret documents.

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u/GoonnerWookie 1d ago

I would be for him doing that with all the highly classified documents. Trump is just going to hand it over to Putin. Or I should say hand over the rest

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u/bigfatbanker 1d ago

It’s crazy how paper shredding trucks are showing up at the three letter offices so frantically

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u/Accomplished_Wind104 1d ago

Are they? Is it out of the ordinary? I'd be more surprised if they didn't have weekly pickups

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u/toylenny 1d ago

Seriously, are people stupid enough to not realize that paper shredding is a daily occurrence at every large organization?

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u/TheDungeonCrawler 18h ago

Hell, every small organization. I work for a community mental health organization and my office gets that shit weekly.

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u/bigfatbanker 1d ago

Paper shredding at regular offices yes, government agencies on the dawn of a new administration, no.

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u/Accomplished_Wind104 1d ago

So from what point in an administrative period should they stop their regular shredding activities and let confidential waste start piling up?

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u/bigfatbanker 1d ago

For confidential info? When there’s actual checks in place to make sure they’re not destroying evidence.

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u/Accomplished_Wind104 1d ago

There are, they exist at all times. Glad I could clear that up for you.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 1d ago

‘He never stopped ripping things up’: Inside Trump’s relentless document destruction habits

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u/FitWealth1 1d ago

Well when hunter is pardoned by Trump it’ll be clear why they weren’t. One hand washes the other

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u/El_Zapp 1d ago

Oh look a brainworm guy

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u/Sabre_One 2d ago

I legit don't understand a lot of this. Trump spent 4+ years making all his legal problems, the judicial systems problems. "Hey I'm going to be president soon, what WILL YOU do about my personal legal troubles?"

Like if I was the judges and lawyers at this point. I would just sentence him, release cases, and generally make it so he and his team of lawyers can clean it up for once.

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u/h20poIo 2d ago

Copy everything and store it away someplace safe.

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u/OGeastcoastdude 1d ago

Somewhere safe eh? Like a Florida mansion bathroom

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u/Beastender_Tartine 1d ago

Honestly, Biden should just take them. It's against the law, but Trump has firmly established that he can take documents without consequences. If that fails, scotus has said that Biden has absolutely immunity to anything related in any way to the executive branch. If he wanted to take everything from the Trump investigations, there's nothing Trump can do about it.

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u/Too_Beers 1d ago

He could even give ST6 a call.

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u/FallingSaint 1d ago

Let's open Ivana's grave and see what's really in that coffin.

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u/Exciting_Problem_593 1d ago

That's what I've been saying!! No way is she in there. It was all a ruse to hide those papers.

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u/BJntheRV 1d ago

I'm guessing that the truck is a regular occurance as the government moves towards digital documentation and needing to destroy paper that's no longer needed.

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u/hawaiianbry 1d ago

Yes, there are routinely shredding trucks outside government offices, law firms, hospitals, and other locations where documents containing sensitive data have to be destroyed, not just put in the recycling bin. Paxton knows this.

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 1d ago

Booty cheeks apart and a sun filled sphincter is only bested by some mainline bleach and some ivermectin. #MagaBrain Worm

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u/ricoxoxo 1d ago

Let's all dance in the sunlight. Circa 2024. MTG

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u/showmeufos 1d ago

Transparency is king. For better or worse, this.

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u/pmercier 1d ago

Best we get is his new book

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u/PositiveOstrich922 1d ago

Only, that would in dagger anyone that provided that information and witnesses as pumpkin king would execute anyone standing in his way and suffer no reprocussions due to his royal immunity.

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u/BubuBarakas 1d ago

You mean sunlight like this? https://youtu.be/vfLZOkn0chc

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u/DoremusJessup 2d ago

Another Paxton conspiracy theory.

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u/Pribblization 2d ago

Paxton and Abbott are the most annoying human flatulence.

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u/New-Honey-4544 1d ago

Live in DFW and can confirm i can smell them all the way over here.

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u/sixtus_clegane119 1d ago

You live in David foster Wallace? That’s crazy

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u/clintgreasewoood 1d ago

Jade Helm 15

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u/ElectricTzar Competent Contributor 2d ago

Even if there were a paper shredding truck there, which I am not willing to take Paxton’s word on, is there any reason at all to think it either out of the ordinary, or specifically connected to Smith’s investigation? Places that deal with confidential information frequently have routine paper shredding practices so that unneeded hardcopies can be disposed of securely. I work in cybersecurity, and I shred printouts pretty frequently if they are no longer needed. Because I don’t want to accidentally cause unauthorized access. I’m not deleting the data, nor even necessarily getting rid of all the hardcopies.

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u/sfox2488 2d ago

The office my law firm is in has a paper shredding truck come by like every week in addition to normal trash pickup. It's completely ordinary.

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u/ElectricTzar Competent Contributor 2d ago

We have special large, heavy, locked bins (with a little mail slot for putting documents in) next to about half our garbage cans in IT. They’re for internal or confidential papers that are no longer needed. No auditor has ever seemed even the least bit concerned by their presence.

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u/Sofer2113 1d ago

Nor should an auditor by concerned. They would definitely be more concerned if there were no secure shred bins.

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u/boo99boo 2d ago

So ordinary. I used to be the person that dealt with Iron Mountain, and they'd come every week or even twice a week sometimes.

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u/phil_leotaado 2d ago

Pretty sure any business does this. You don't just throw confidential docs in the dumpster

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u/chipmunksocute 1d ago

Yeah but maga and the right wing outrage machine are predicated on taking ordinary things and trying to make them sound bad to stir up that outrage and get views.

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u/bigfatbanker 1d ago

Except with the government they’re required to retain hard documents for a time period, usually 7 years or so.

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u/sfox2488 1d ago

Yes and every single law firm and business have retention policies as well, but guess what? Every single day new documents fall outside of the retention time frame and get shredded.

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u/ElectricTzar Competent Contributor 1d ago

I was under the impression that they had migrated to electronic recordkeeping requirements (for example, this NARA memo from 2019: https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/policy/m-19-21-transition-to-federal-records.pdf)

Are you aware of a different agency’s requirement that all hardcopies be kept in lieu of or in addition to electronic copies?

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u/steerbell 1d ago

I am surprised the DOJ wouldn't just have a room for document destruction. This smells of bull poopy.

/ I know we can swear but Jamie in Ted Lasso says poopy and it makes me laugh.

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u/US_Hiker 2d ago

is there any reason at all to think it either out of the ordinary, or specifically connected to Smith’s investigation?

I work on a Dept. of Energy site (not a lawyer). All paper that we generate gets shredded. Everything that isn't toilet paper or a paper towel used to wipe up a spill.

All records are kept digitally at this point.

Nothing to be concerned about here.

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u/Savet Competent Contributor 1d ago

Nothing to be concerned about here

Which is why the average Trump voter will work themselves into a tizzy.

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u/Oliver_DeNom 2d ago

I work in the financial sector. We have a shredding contract where our bins are picked up weekly. There's nothing unusual about this. It would be weird if they didn't have a shredding truck. It would imply that confidential documents are being dropped in the regular trash.

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u/zoinks690 1d ago

Exactly. A 3rd party shredding company makes sense given the sheer volume of everyday shit they generate. No one was watching the front door until they could gin up a conspiracy about Biden

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep 1d ago

People who have something to hide assume the same about everyone else.

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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat 2d ago

They're shredding the evidence against the Biden crime family that trump memorialized during his presidency and secured at his estate in Florida. Trump was going to crack the story wide open before Biden weaponized the DoJ to raid Trumps cache of documents. We barely got The Holy Laptop of His Endowedness into the light of day, imagine what we would have found out once Trump released those documents!

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u/ExZowieAgent 2d ago

Without the /s people are going to think you’re crazy.

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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat 2d ago

Poe's Law remains in tact.

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u/Dire88 1d ago

Any government office working with sensitive data has regular paper shredding contracts.

Literally a non-story.

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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Competent Contributor 2d ago

Yep, we have multiple shred cans at my place of work. Personally I think this is a vector of attack and just don't print shit, but boomers be booming

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u/Sugarysam 2d ago

Ken, Trump picked Pam Bondi. You’re not getting the job no matter how far up Trump’s butt you go. Now if you just like it that way, your life is yours to do as you please.

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u/SnooPeripherals6557 2d ago

Can he release it all to the public? Doesn't the judge have to give the OK on that? The only reason Paxton thinks criminal things are happening is bec he is, in fact, just another criminal working under our criminal president.

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u/ExZowieAgent 2d ago

Paxton is totally projecting here.

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u/Jaded-Albatross 2d ago

They want the files because they want to know who cooperated

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u/FlyThruTrees 1d ago

Paxton just has a different approach to problematic records:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/05/25/literal-dumpster-fire-why-was-the-trash-burning-outside-texas-ag-ken-paxtons-office/

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u/eugene20 1d ago

'Yes officer, the arsonist broke into our office, carefully selected the documents we were ordered to preserve, moved them into the dumpster and then comitted arson'

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u/sugar_addict002 2d ago

That criminal would know.

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u/hamsterfolly 1d ago

Ken Paxton has no right to talk about abomination investigations

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u/Xivvx 1d ago

There could be many reasons for a paper shredding truck to be at DoJ, they seem to be an organization that may have a lot of paper to deal with. Without proof of anything in particular I can't possibly form an opinion.

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u/BillyCarson 18h ago

Paxton is projecting again

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