A Brief Survey of Documents Related to Donald Trump That Have Yet To Be Released

Undocumented: A Brief Survey of Documents Related to Donald Trump That Have Yet To Be Released – “Troves of records, correspondence, deposition transcripts, NDAs, contracts, translator notes, intercepts, photographs & videos exist that would expose Trump for what he is. We still haven’t seen them…At the risk of opening with the “Webster’s defines a document as…” cliché, it is instructive for our purposes to explain just what document refers to. The federal government offers this expansive definition [and to my colleagues who have been librarians in any sector – we know this, but the majority of readers on all platforms, do not]:

The term “document” means any written, recorded, or graphic matter of any nature whatsoever, regardless of how recorded, and whether original or copy, including, but not limited to, the following: memoranda, reports, expense reports, books, manuals, instructions, financial reports, data, working papers, records, notes, letters, notices, confirmations, telegrams, receipts, appraisals, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, prospectuses, communications, electronic mail (email), contracts, cables, notations of any type of conversation, telephone call, meeting or other inter-office or intra-office communication, bulletins, printed matter, computer printouts, teletypes, invoices, transcripts, diaries, analyses, returns, summaries, minutes, bills, accounts, estimates, projections, comparisons, messages, correspondence, press releases, circulars, financial statements, reviews, opinions, offers, studies and investigations, questionnaires and surveys, and work sheets (and all drafts, preliminary versions, alterations, modifications, revisions, changes, and amendments of any of the foregoing, as well as any attachments or appendices thereto), and graphic or oral records or representations of any kind (including without limitation, photographs, charts, graphs, microfiche, microfilm, videotape, recordings and motion pictures), and electronic, mechanical, and electric records or representations of any kind (including, without limitation, tapes, cassettes, disks, and recordings) and other written, printed, typed, or other graphic or recorded matter of any kind or nature, however produced or reproduced, and whether preserved in writing, film, tape, disk, videotape, or otherwise…Trump himself recognizes the danger of certain documents seeing the light of day. That’s why he’s been at war with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) since he left office in January 2021. As the non-profit American Oversight notes in its 2025 investigative report “Trump’s Hostile Takeover of the National Archives — and Our Nation’s History,” NARA…”

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