Trump attempted to weaponize Mar-a-Lago documents to use against FBI and DOJ

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/16/2116985/-Trump-attempted-to-weaponize-Mar-a-Lago-documents-to-use-against-FBI-and-DOJ

The Washington Post has laid out a timeline of events related to Donald Trump’s illegal transfer of highly classified documents to Mar-a-Lago and the government’s efforts to recover those critical documents. One thing that becomes clear when looking at the order of events is that when confronted over his holding information that had national security significance, Trump did not move to immediately return this material. Instead, he dedicated two of his most loyal henchmen to finding a way to flip the script and leverage the documents he had stolen against the FBI and DOJ.

The National Archives was aware that Trump took records that belonged to the government to Mar-a-Lago shortly after he reluctantly slunk away from the White House, but eight months were spent in negotiating before Trump gave up the first scrap of paper. Shortly after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of material last February, there was information that Trump’s document stash contained both documents classified as top-secret, and information behind the bungling of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also included such national treasures as Trump’s love letters to Kim Jong Un.

While it wasn’t until August that the FBI carried out a historic search of the building Trump is illegally using as his primary residence, that doesn’t mean nothing was happening during those months in between. The archives, and other agencies, spent months trying to get the remaining materials back from Trump. But rather than cooperate, Trump adopted a strategy of stalling and lying about what he had. And when it was clear the DOJ was closing in, Trump appointed former Devin Nunes aide Kash Patel and right-wing media mogul John Solomon with a goal of using those documents against the agencies trying to get them back.

In the weeks after Trump’s departure from Washington, it became obvious that some high profile materials—like the mash note exchange with Kim and the letter that President Obama left for Trump on the day he moved into the Oval Office—were missing. So the National Archives began to contact Trump’s team in Mar-a-Lago, searching for the lost material.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Trump isn't smart enough to take on the DoJ and the FBI.

Trump is a fuck-up.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Nor his spawn

This smells like Jared

[Walleye]

2. He directed these two criminal minions to look over top-secret documents? Good Lord!

It’s not like you even need a Xerox machine. They can photograph and transmit all the documents they want with their phones

[malaise]

3. The loser tried

And the loser failed AGAIN

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Welp, it sounds like he overplayed his hand.

[mopinko]

6. he took obama's letter? wtf?

anyone wanna bet he already sold that?