# Trump's secret documents at home--what about photocopies?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 24, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-secret-documents-at-home-what-about-photocopies/970236 "2022-08-24T18:07:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-secret-documents-at-home-what-about-photocopies/970236/21 "2022-08-25T19:51:00Z")

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Trump wouldn’t have personally made any photocopies. He’s a big picture kind of guy. He let’s his minions handle the details, like thinking of good ideas and then carrying out those ideas. Like that new intern, Sergei, who just sort of showed up at the office. Funny name but real helpful. He practically insisted on volunteering to make copies.

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**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-secret-documents-at-home-what-about-photocopies/970236/22 "2022-08-25T20:58:25Z")

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OTOH, we certainly hope that the Secret Service does its job, meaning anyone working around TFG was somewhat background-checked before being let in, plus any visitors would be logged. So they’ll know which embassy employee it was…

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**Author:** ![paulmarkj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@paulmarkj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulmarkj)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-secret-documents-at-home-what-about-photocopies/970236/23 "2022-08-26T12:11:20Z")

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> Even if there were (like the photocopier light reacting with the paper or ink) surely you can just photograph them and no one would be the wiser, no?

Yes, I’ve often found photographing to be quicker than photocopying.

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**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-secret-documents-at-home-what-about-photocopies/970236/24 "2022-08-27T12:16:53Z")

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there are “photocopy” phone apps that turn a photo into a nice even vertically aligned rectangular document. Some even do text recognition.

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