🧩 BND Motif Index · M1892
Shredding on the way out
A side about to lose power is said to be destroying its records in its last weeks, so the paper trail is gone before the incoming majority can subpoena it, and the shredding is told as a cover-up racing the handover.
📜 Plots🗂️ Hidden Power & Cover-ups🗂️ Gamesmanship
- 2claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Midnight judges
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 0 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “He's been out deleting things that he knows will be subject to investigations by the Democrats.” “Trump Minions Launch Desperate Cover-Up Before Dems Get Power” “We have reports that Donald Trump and other Republicans in D.C. are shredding incriminating documents, deleting incriminating social media posts” “whistleblowers warned that key paperwork has already been destroyed before Democrats take power”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-11 “Donald Trump and Republicans are accused of shredding documents and deleting social media posts to avoid investigations.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-11 “Whistleblowers allege the Trump administration is destroying documents related to construction projects to cover up evidence before Democrats take control of Congress.”
M1892 · first seen 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works