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kentuck

(111,106 posts)
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 10:30 AM Aug 2022

Questions continue to arise about the documents.

The NARA wrangled with Trump for over a year in an attempt to get Trump to return the missing documents. Finally, they went to the DOJ to get a subpoena and then went to retrieve the missing boxes of documents. Trump gave them 15 boxes of documents and he thought that was the end of the story.

But "someone" informed the DOJ that there were still boxes of documents left at Mar-a-Lago. So the FBI sent a couple of guys down to verify the story and discovered that it was true. They requested that Trump put a padlock on the door in the basement.

Two months later, the FBI showed up with a team to search the premises and to seize all documents not belonging to Donald J Trump. And we are here today.

But many questions are still unanswered. How did Trump get the documents into the boxes? Who assisted him? How many people knew about the documents? Where did he hide them before they were moved to MAL? How did he get them out of the White House unnoticed?

Even bigger questions: Did he lose any of the documents? Or did he sell any of the documents to a third party?

The American people need answers.

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brush

(53,801 posts)
1. Absolutely. No way trump did all that himself.
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 10:57 AM
Aug 2022

The secreting them from secure government areas, the packing, the smuggling/shipping, to Florida, the storing. Several people had to have been involved as trump couldn't have even done the first step without some kind of collaboration with the government scif attendants.

And the Russians are claiming to have had the nuke docs for a while now.

C_U_L8R

(45,006 posts)
2. Why haven't they raided his other properties?
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 11:05 AM
Aug 2022

Seems to be plenty of probable cause. And his henchmen too.

With all this time, there's plenty of evidence being stashed and destroyed.

Irish_Dem

(47,173 posts)
3. Big question is how much damage did he do to national security?
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 11:16 AM
Aug 2022

A president of the United States has access to a huge amount of classified material.


Amazing that a sitting president may have sold classified intel to our enemies.
And we have little confidence that anybody cares or will do anything about it.

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
5. I'm curious if they are the actual documents or if they are copies? Some of them were not allowed to
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 11:21 AM
Aug 2022

to be looked at except for in a certain place. How were they removed from there? Were cell phones used to take photos of them in that place?

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