Whistleblowers Say Trump’s Goons Are Destroying Documents About Construction Projects
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Allegations of document destruction around major construction projects highlight how fragile institutional memory is when it’s tied to paper and ad hoc systems. If your capex or infra work depends on traceability, assume you’re one political cycle away from chaos unless you’ve digitized and redundantly stored the record.
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