美国民主党籍众议员鲍比·斯科特周三致信多个联邦机构负责人，提醒他们遵守《联邦记录法》，并警告违法者将面临刑事责任。斯科特明年有望担任众议院教育与劳动力委员会主席。
A top House Democrat is warning members of the Trump administration not to hide or destroy documents as the party plans to investigate top officials in the next Congress.
斯科特的信件紧随众议院监督委员会当选主席罗伯特·加西亚在周二中期选举民主党“蓝色海啸”之后，对特朗普官员发出的两字警告：“请律师。”信中警告称，任何“故意且非法隐藏、移除、损毁、涂改、伪造或销毁”联邦文件的人，最高可面临三年监禁。至于斯科特委员会可能会挖出什么，只能任人想象。
Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott, who is primed to lead the House Education and Workforce Committee next year, sent letters to the heads of numerous federal agencies on Wednesday, reminding them of the Federal Records Act and the threat of criminal liability for anyone in violation of it. Scott’s letter follows incoming House Oversight Committee Chairman Robert Garcia’s two-word warning to Trump officials after Democrats’ “blue tsunami” in Tuesday’s midterms: “Lawyer up.”The letters warn that anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys” federal documents could face up to three years in prison. And one can only imagine the sorts of things that might be unearthed by Scott’s committee.
信件接收者包括几个机构的负责人，特朗普及其盟友曾利用这些机构将MAGA运动的种族主义、性别歧视和反科学歇斯底里联邦化。教育部长琳达·麦克马洪——她一边试图废除自己的部门，一边帮助拆解学校种族隔离政策——收到了一封。卫生与公共服务部长小罗伯特·肯尼迪也收到了一封，他充满阴谋论的反疫苗议程因宣扬优生学而受到谴责。平等就业机会委员会主席安德里亚·卢卡斯也收到了斯科特的警告，她曾助长MAGA世界关于劳动力对白人男性存在歧视的虚假说法。
Letter recipients include leaders of several agencies that Trump and his allies have used to federalize the MAGA movement’s racism, sexism and antiscientific hysteria. Education Secretary Linda McMahon — who has helped dismantle school desegregation policies while trying to abolish her own department — got one. So did Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose conspiracy theory-laden anti-vaccine agenda has been condemned for promoting eugenics. And Andrea Lucas, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairwoman who has helped fuel MAGA world’s false claims that the workforce is rigged against white men, received Scott’s warning as well.
农业部、国家劳资关系委员会、国家艺术基金会等机构的负责人也在接收者之列。他们都收到了同样的信息：调查即将来临，别想着效仿特朗普把文件藏在浴室里。
They’re joined by the heads of the Agriculture Department, the National Labor Relations Board, the National Endowment for the Arts and more. And they all received the same message: Investigations are coming, so don’t even think about pulling a Trump and hoarding documents in your bathroom.
警告似乎完全有必要。除了特朗普本人与文件的历史，他还一直在与《总统记录法》作对，该法要求保留联邦记录和通信。此外，据报道，他曾誓言在任期结束前，向椭圆形办公室200英尺范围内的工作人员发布大规模赦免。
And the warnings seem more than warranted. In addition to Trump’s personal history with documents, he has waged war on the Presidential Records Act, which requires the retention of federal records and communications. Furthermore, he reportedly vowed to issue mass pardons to members of his staff within 200 feet of the Oval Office before his term ends.
他并非以遵守联邦记录法著称，我们也没有理由相信他期望其政府成员会有更好的表现。
This is not someone known to adhere to federal records laws, and we have no reason to believe he expects anything better from members of his administration.