Donald Trump email controversy
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In June 2016 a USA Today article reported that Donald Trump and his companies have been deleting emails and other documents on a large scale,[1] including evidence in lawsuits, sometimes in defiance of court orders and under subpeona since as early as 1973.[2][3][4][5][6] In October 2016, Kurt Eichenwald published new research findings in Newsweek.
Development[edit]
The findings were first published by Paul Singer[7] on June 13, 2016[8][9] and gained larger attention after a new report in Newsweek on October 31, 2016.[2] According to Newsweek, Trump and his companies "hid or destroyed thousands of documents" involving several court cases from as early as 1973.[10]
In 1973 Trump, his father and their company were in court for civil charges for refusing to rent apartements to African Americans. After their lawyers had delayed court requests for documents for several months, Trump, then being under subpoena, said his company had destroyed corporate records of the past six months "for saving space".[5][11]
In a court case beginning in 2005 against Power Plant Enterainment LLC, an affiliate of real estate developer Cordish Cos., it was revealed that Trump's companies had deleted the data requested by court.[12][13][14] Cordish Cos. had built two American Indian[15] casinos in Florida under the Hard Rock brand and Donald Trump accused them of cheating him out of that deal. Nonetheless, Trump's lawyers had refused to instruct workers to keep all records related to the case during litigation.[2] Trump had established a procedure to delete all data from their employees' computers every year at least since 2003,[16][17] despite knowing at least since 2001 that he might want to file a lawsuit. Even after the lawsuit was filed, Trump Hotels disposed of a computer of a key witness without having made a backup of the data.[2][18] A former general counsel of the Trump casino unit confirmed that all data was deleted from nearly all companies' computers annually.[19]
"Over the course of decades, Donald Trump’s companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded in official proceedings, often in defiance of court orders. … In each instance, Trump and entities he controlled also erected numerous hurdles that made lawsuits drag on for years, forcing courtroom opponents to spend huge sums of money in legal fees as they struggled—sometimes in vain—to obtain records."
Trump and his lawyers claimed they were not keeping records and digital data although it was revealed that Trump had launched an own high-speed internet provider in 1998[20] and an IBM Domino server had been installed for emails and digital files in 1999.[2][21]
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References[edit]
- ↑ Stein, Jeff. "Lawsuits show that Donald Trump's companies regularly delete emails and other records". Vox. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Donald Trump's companies destroyed or hid documents in defiance of court orders". Newsweek. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ↑ "Donald Trump's Shocking History of Shredding Documents and Destroying Emails When He's Under Subpoena". The Stranger. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
- ↑ EnStars (2016-10-31). "Donald Trump News: GOP Candidate's History Of Deleting Emails & Documents Subpoenaed For Court Cases Exposed [VIDEO]". Enstarz. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
- ↑ Lanktree, Graham (2016-10-31). "Trump email cover up: Presidential nominee's companies defied court orders and destroyed documents". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ↑ Papenfuss, Mary (2016-06-14). "Just like Hillary, Trump is accused of wiping out important emails". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ "Paul Singer". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ "Trump was accused of destroying email evidence in lawsuit 10 years ago". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ↑ O'Connor, Brendan. "Donald Trump Accused of Deleting Emails in 2004 Casino Lawsuit". Gawker. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ Editor, Igor Bobic Associate Politics; Post, The Huffington (2016-10-31). "Donald Trump And Mike Pence Have Their Own Issues With Emails And Transparency". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ↑ Haraldsson, Hrafnkell (2016-10-31). "It Turns Out Trump Put off Investigators for 6 Months While He Destroyed Emails". Politicus USA. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ Hensch, Mark (2016-06-13). "Lawsuit accused Trump company of deleting emails". TheHill. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ "Donald Trump destroyed emails, recordings, documents in defiance of court orders". Daily Kos. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ "EICHENWALD: Trump has Destroyed or Withheld Documents courts had ordered turned over numerous times". Daily Kos. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ Staff, AOL. "Donald Trump has his own history of deleting emails". AOL.com. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ "Trump Companies 'Systematically' Destroyed or Hid Thousands of Emails and Records: Report". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ↑ "Republicans' 2016 email advantage starts to evaporate". MSNBC. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ Novick, Ilana (2016-10-31). "Donald Trump Has Destroyed Documents and Emails in Defiance of Court Orders for 40 Years". AlterNet. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ "Literally the Only Issue Where Donald Trump Had an Advantage Over Hillary Clinton Is Now Gone". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ ""Destruction Of Evidence": Trump Org. Deleted Emails Sought In Lawsuit". American Bridge PAC. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ↑ Lanktree, Graham (2016-10-31). "Trump email cover up: Presidential nominee's companies defied court orders and destroyed documents". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
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