Opinion: Trump took classified info docs home to cash in on them...period.

[Augiedog]

One way or another he expected to make money selling secrets. That’s what he does, besides stiffing employees out of their fairly earned wages. He has a history of this stuff…it’s not a secret that Trump is all about trump and cash. He has mountains of debt to refinance, guess how he planned to manage that.

This is just another of his unethical, immoral and anti American actions that further his criminal inclinations. It’s likely he went into the presidency with the idea of monetizing it and using social chaos as camouflage for his nefarious actions.

The consistency of his indecencies, the crassness of his behaviors, and the lies he churned out as if that was what he wanted his legacy to be are so evident and publicly glaring that it astonishing. Anymore being a trumper no longer says anything about trump….it says oceans about the trump humpers.

[Meadowoak]

1. +1

[niyad]

2. Exactly.

[Wounded Bear]

3. trump monetizes everything he does...nt

[Irish_Dem]

4. Trump would have stolen material to sell, or use as blackmail, leverage or revenge.

Or to brag about.

Or docs he thinks incriminate him. Or exonerate him.

The list of possible items is obvious given his toxic narcissism and ruthless sociopathy.

He would love anything of prurient, tabloid type interest. He would love to brag to people along the lines of: "I know who killed JFK." "I know what really happened at Roswell."

He would love any documentation of wrong doing by elected or other high level officials. For bragging rights as well as leverage.

He would want any high ticket document, something our enemies would pay top dollar for.

Also of interest would be items to be used for leverage. "Hey I have top secret info I will release if you indict me."

And he certainly would have spent time collecting these documents rather than doing his actual job while POTUS.

[Walleye]

8. His motivations always are, vengeance, vindication and of course money

[Irish_Dem]

33. Yes. He is like a serial killer, once you see the crime scene you know what makes him tick.

[Harker]

29. Goldfungus...

he's the man - the man with a lecher's touch

A rapist's touch

Such a cold fungus

Beckons you to pay for his gaudy life

And for his wife...

Vile babble he will pour in your ear

But his lies can't disguise that he's weird

For a normal woman knows when he's groped her

It's a courtroom dance with

Mr. Coldfungus

[Irish_Dem]

34. Excellent job, this is Trump's theme song.

[Harker]

37. I heard Shirley Bassey in my head. Thanks!

Now I'm picking up Tom Jones...

He always rides while others walk

He raves while other men just talk

They call him the loser who steals all

And he strikes - like blunderball.


I really should be reading a good book.

[Irish_Dem]

39. I heard her too!

You have a real talent for political satire lyrics.

[Harker]

42. You're very kind.

I can already see the look on my wife's face when I belt out "Goldfungus" later!

[Irish_Dem]

44. You can sing too.

I bet your wife gets a kick out of the performance.

[Harker]

45. I'm no Shirley Bassey.

I try to make up for my lack of talent with sheer verve.

[Irish_Dem]

46. Sheer verve can go a long way.

It is always interesting to see people with average talent hit the big time.
In the entertainment industry and in sports for example.
They do it on personalty and drive.

[Harker]

48. Wise words.

A world comprised of nothing but stars would implode.

Your comments have brought Terry-Thomas to mind. Like so many others, he worked to create his own niche.

[Irish_Dem]

51. Yes other names:

Christy Evert in tennis.
Madonna in entertainment.

Then you have the reverse situation, absolutely top talent who cannot grab the gold.
Michelle Kwan is said to be one of the greatest figure skaters of all time. Yet she could not get the
gold medal she deserved.

[agingdem]

5. I don't see Trump hand delivering the documents to

his autocrat buddies, but I do see Trump dedicating a wing of his hotel to a private "presidential" library, stolen documents and artifacts on full display...and for a very hefty price of "admission" he would escort a select few ( visiting despots, foreign agents) through his masturbatory homage, allowing them the opportunity to peruse his cache at their leisure...

[Walleye]

6. Such as Bedminster golf course

[OMGWTF]

26. I'm telling ya, look in Ivana's coffin for the really good stuff.

TEN men struggled with the cremated remains of an old woman -- https://politizoom.com/what-the-hell-is-in-ivanas-casket/

[Walleye]

27. Maybe some remote ground penetrating radar

The FBI has all the gadgets

[Irish_Dem]

35. Secret docs were either hand carried by Trump's middlemen or transferred electronically.

If the enemy paid a high enough price, they may want the originals for authentication.

I agree, it is quite possible enemy agents met him a MAL. That would make him happy.
Make him feel important.

[agingdem]

38. I agree..he's a meglomanic..

the "buyers" would come to him to pay their respects

[Irish_Dem]

40. That would also have made it much easier for FBI/CIA surveillance.

Yes, I can see the enemy agents all coming to kiss Trump's behind, and get into a bidding war.

[NCDem47]

7. The DOJ, FBI, CIA, WHOEVER...

Must prove at some point that he was trading info for something of value. That is the ONLY end game that will put a wood stake in this vampire. Without that, the weasel will always claim "it was a mistake of others" or he was keeping items as momentos ("Perfectly legal folks. Perfectly legal.&quot

[Walleye]

10. "Novel investigative techniques" mentioned in the court filing. Could be a sting operation

[Irish_Dem]

41. Oh my, I didn't read about the "novel" investigative techniques. What could this be?

We know what the routine investigative techniques are....

What could be "novel"???

[Walleye]

47. Neal Katyal mentioned that phrase and it really caught my attention

[Irish_Dem]

49. Oh for sure. Same here.

Thanks for sharing.

Now my brain is chewing on it.

[Irish_Dem]

43. NC. Yep they are not going to nab Trump for paperwork problems or taking souvenirs.

It is going to have to be giving classified intel to enemies in exchange for cash or services.

[jcgoldie]

9. The newest RW talking point is predictable

The excuses have taken a familiar turn.

First: He didn't do it!
Then: He did it but so what? Nothing is wrong with it!
Now: He did it but he's too stupid and dimwitted to have understood what it meant or planned anything nefarious...

[usonian]

11. Gangster? President? Why not have both?

[Scottie Mom]

12. Yep, no doubt in my mind.

He's a dishonest piece of shit. Has been one all his life. Just because he made it to the WH, his character did not change. Everything is for his benefit. PERIOD. Be it ego, money, attention...whatever. He is number one on his list and there are no other causes, entries or people on that list.

[OMGWTF]

28. Shitler has NO character -- that's the problem.

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. TFG was selling off those presidential papers to the highest bidders

Link to tweet

[packman]

14. I'm going with he took docs that implicated him in sleaze and corruption

or to later sell for big bucks to his cult - the "perfect" letters, the magic-marker weather map, etc.

[rubbersole]

15. Probably a combination of "all of the above".

This is going to be his legacy. Thieving piece of shit finally got out over his skis. Wait. Skis? OK, that won't work...

[calimary]

16. Yep. That's it. But with him, that's ALWAYS it.

All he cares about is money and the ownership of it.

Schmuck.

[ashredux]

17. Trump tries to monetize anything he can get his hands on. Our top secrets were no exception

[MiHale]

18. He'd monetize a fart if he could...anything goes.

[mountain grammy]

19. Completely agree!

[onecaliberal]

20. PERIOD! They were NOT his papers, NOTHING belonged to him.

He's a fucking criminal. Stop accepting the excuses made for this cancerous piece of shit.

[pandr32]

21. 100% this, and explained so well.

Thank you for every word.

[Mr. Ected]

22. He took them because he was told he couldn't

And nobody tells Donald Trump what he can and cannot do.

Obviously, everyone else is correct on his intended uses for the contraband, but a large part of the removal was his refusal to be denied anything that he wanted.

Ever the victim.

[triron]

23. Yeah, but the media doesn't seem to get it.

Are they dense or what?

[wiggs]

24. that would be completely ON BRAND for DJT and family. nt

[gratuitous]

25. Say it and just keep saying it

Let the former guy protest that he did nothing of the sort, and complain about it. Then say it again: He stole classified documents to sell to the highest bidder. More denials (or, more likely, non-denial denials)? Say it again. It will stick in people's minds sooner or later, and then the former guy can spend all his time battling the shadows and the shades, the rumors and the whispers.

And that would be a downright shame.

[Midnight Writer]

30. The one thing the RW talkers don't have: An innocent explanation for why he took the documents.

They have binders full of excuses for him, but they can't explain why he would take this vast quantity of material except for greed.

[GoodRaisin]

31. He certainly didn't take them for reading material.

Yeah, those top secret documents have likely been copied and sold a dozen times by now.

[dawn5651]

32. i don't believe ivana is buried at bedminster either.

[Irish_Dem]

36. She was reportedly cremated.

Who knows where her ashes are located.

[sarcasmo]

50. Trump already cashed in.

[MurrayDelph]

52. He is ALL the bad kids from Willie Wonka.

Those boxes are him trying to sell Everlasting Gob-stoppers to Slugworth.

[AntiFascist]

53. There is also a history of Congressional Oversight Committee investigations into this stuff...

and there is speculation that this FBI investigation may be just a result of that Committee's report.