Trump Axes National Archivist, Colleen Shogan
Because, of course, he did
In a move that surprised absolutely no one, including JV Last of the Bulwark, President Trump has fired Colleen J. Shogan, the Archivist of the United States—the official tasked with safeguarding government records.
Sergio Gor, the director of the Presidential Personnel Office, made the announcement Friday night, stating on X, “At the direction of @realDonaldTrump the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight. We thank Colleen Shogan for her service.”
Given Trump’s long-standing grudge against the National Archives and its role in the classified documents case that led to his 40 felony charges (which conveniently vanished once he won the election), this was about as inevitable as a late-night Twitter rant.
Shogan had only held the job since 2023, and as recently as Thursday, a senior official assured CBS News there was "no word that anything is changing."
Apparently, they missed the memo.
The National Archives, traditionally a low-profile, apolitical agency, found itself in Trump’s crosshairs after it flagged his unauthorized stash of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
During a recent radio interview, Trump had already signaled his intentions, declaring, “We will have a new archivist.”
Translation: Anyone in charge of keeping track of government documents better not get in the way of his personal filing system.
Trump’s “handling” of classified materials has been a scandal-ridden saga, but now, with the Justice Department’s hands tied by its policy against prosecuting a sitting president (by design, of course), it looks like the consequences are fading into history—just like those documents he didn’t want to return.
Source: CBS News