Trump tells his lawyers to get "my" top secret documents back from the feds

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tells-lawyers-get-my-top-secrets-documents-back-1234580501/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/jjrVV


IN THE WEEKS after the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, former President Donald Trump repeatedly made a simple-sounding but extraordinary ask: he wanted his lawyers to get “my documents” back from federal law enforcement.

Trump wasn’t merely referring to the alleged trove of attorney-client material that he insists was scooped up by the feds, two people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. The ex-president has been demanding that his team find a way to recover “all” of the official documents that Trump has long referred to as “mine” — including the highly sensitive and top secret ones.

Sources close to Trump agree with outside legal experts that such a sweeping legal maneuver would be a long-shot, at best. “I hate to break it to the [former] president, but I do not think he is going to get all [the] top-secret documents back,” says one Trump adviser. “That ship has probably sailed.”

Further, several longtime Trump advisers say they want absolutely nothing to do with the now-infamous boxes of documents, fearing that any knowledge of them could invite an unwanted knock on the door from the feds. “Who would want any of that back? … If it is what they say it is, keep them the hell away,” a second adviser says.

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[oswaldactedalone]

1. Full-blown dotard

What a maroon.

[PlutosHeart]

17. Full blown Narcissist

If you have ever known a "clinical" one this is exactly how they act. And they are massively destructive and have zero restraint. They are really deluded. Next step is psychopath.

[Irish_Dem]

22. He is a narcissist and sociopath.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Fuck you, they belong to me, us, NOT you !

[sop]

3. Isn't that basically a confession?

[onecaliberal]

4. This was my thought as well.

[crickets]

13. 👆👆

[sakabatou]

20. Sounds like it.

[Botany]

5. Trump "wanted his lawyers to get "my documents" back from federal law enforcement."

Ah Donny those are not your documents, by having them you broke the law big time, and the 3 American
civilians that the feds busted for the level of espionage that it looks like Trump was at 2 were executed (the
Rosenbergs) and the other is doing 15 life terms in the Fed Super Max Prison in Colorado (Robert Hanssen).

[Cha]

6. Fucking Delusional POREDS!

[magicarpet]

7. Idiot still thinks he is the pResident in Chief of Orangeland.

Fuck off Donnie.

[yourout]

9. Must not have gotten around to copying them....

All that potential $$$$ gone.
Needed a faster scanner.

[Nevilledog]

10. Buyers like originals

[yourout]

11. To bad someone wasn't savy enough to switch out the records.

It would have made a tidy little trap.

[PlutosHeart]

16. Maybe he already got paid for them

but now cannot deliver. Ooopsiedaisy.

[crickets]

12. "a person aggrieved by an unlawful search and seizure of property"

Oh, puh-leez. What a load of malarkey. The documents are not yours, donnie. They never were. Some of them never should have left the building (in some cases, the room) where they were stored, much less ended up in a basement in another state.

How'd you manage that, by the way?

For everyone's sake, somebody please lock this man up. It's the only way he'll STOP.

[Saboburns]

14. This gets better by the hour

I say BRAVO! FBI!

You've done this beautifully.

Flawless tactics and strategy.

Keep tightening the screws just a little bit every day. You are driving them insane!

This is delicious!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Trump tells attorneys: Get 'my' classified documents back from the DOJ

TFG is nuts.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-classified-docs/

"Trump wasn’t merely referring to the alleged trove of attorney-client material that he insists was scooped up by the feds, two people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone," reported Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley. "The ex-president has been demanding that his team find a way to recover 'all' of the official documents that Trump has long referred to as 'mine' — including the highly sensitive and top secret ones."

"Sources close to Trump agree with outside legal experts that such a sweeping legal maneuver would be a long-shot, at best. 'I hate to break it to the [former] president, but I do not think he is going to get all [the] top-secret documents back,' says one Trump adviser. 'That ship has probably sailed,'" said the report. "Further, several longtime Trump advisers say they want absolutely nothing to do with the now-infamous boxes of documents, fearing that any knowledge of them could invite an unwanted knock on the door from the feds. 'Who would want any of that back? … If it is what they say it is, keep them the hell away,' a second adviser says."

According to previous reports, some of the documents are classified at the highest level, and may involve nuclear weapons secrets.

Another recent report indicated that Trump had over 300 classified documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago — and that he personally sorted through all the documents to determine which ones he wanted to hold back from the National Archives, a potential sign he was aware of the risk to national security but went through with it anyway.

"The former president’s office claimed recently that Trump had issued a so-called 'standing order' to automatically declassify any materials taken from the West Wing in order to facilitate a flexible work schedule for the then-president," said the report. "Thus far, no Trump administration veterans have come forward to attest to the existence of the legally questionable order. But it has prompted, as Rolling Stone reported last week, FBI agents to begin questioning former members of the Trump National Security Council about whether they have any recollection of such an order."

TFG needs to hire some real attorneys if he wants to get this result

[keithbvadu2]

18. "...about whether they have any recollection of such an order." ---- equals 'participated in'.

equals 'participated in'.

They may not want to remember.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

19. Tin pot dickhead.

[Tanuki]

21. "If it is what they say it is... " sounds like the "long-time adviser" was Don Jr.

Cf. "If it's what you say it is I love it, especially later in the summer."

[Irish_Dem]

23. Trump sees the entire US government as personal property.

All the documents, wealth, military, government agencies, courts, etc.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Maybe he is going for a Not Guilty For Reason of Insanity defense.

[Jack the Greater]

25. "two people familiar with the matter"

Impressive credentials