a link to Seth's substack (paywall I think) in which he carefully lays out what might be happening.
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-real-scandal-in-donald?utm_source=email
EXCLUSIVE: The Real Scandal in Donald Trump’s Historic Theft of Classified Records Is Not What You Think
As a Trump biographer who’s written more best-sellers on Trump’s presidency than any other author, I’ve a very different view of the current classified-records scandal involving Trump and Mar-a-Lago.
It’s important for Americans to understand not just that what Trump did is actually—for him—unsurprising, but also why it’s unsurprising. Because it’s becoming clear that behind the scandal everyone in major media who’s not a Trump biographer is focused on right now is a far larger scandal that will soon descend upon America. This “real” scandal could have lasting consequences for the United States well beyond anything now being contemplated.
We must remember that Trump had barely settled in at the White House before he was divulging “highly classified” military intelligence from Israel to top Kremlin agents inside the Oval Office—thereafter explaining away this historic breach of national security (and an unprecedented betrayal of a leading American ally) by saying he had declassified the intelligence he divulged in situ. It was universally agreed, at the time, by political journalists and Trump biographers and even certain Trump allies, that Trump had been intending to show off the accoutrements of his new presidency (which include highly classified intelligence materials) to his longtime allies inside the Kremlin, and that it was for this reason that he risked the lives of countless people in the Middle East. Behind his desire to impress the Kremlin, of course, was the reality—only dimly appreciated back in May of 2017—that he had just spent the last four years trying to close a Trump Tower Moscow deal he knew required Kremlin pre-clearance.
....Throughout the Trump presidency—as I detailed in Proof of Conspiracy (Macmillan, 2019)—Trump secretly used unsecure phones to pass classified intelligence, a practice first disclosed in 2018. It was, many observed at the time, almost like Trump wanted to have his calls intercepted by hostile foreign powers. Certainly, it was universally understood by 2018 that he had declared war on the American intelligence community and routinely accepted foreign intel (including even known Russian disinformation) as being superior to American SIGINT, HUMINT, MASINT, IMINT, and OSINT. Told that certain things he claimed to believe were really part and parcel of foreign psy-ops campaigns designed to weaken American national security, Trump would habitually ask only one question of anything he had read: whether it benefitted him personally.
...And if major media accidentally catches a glimpse of the real scandal here while it is breathlessly reporting on the ho-hum investigation of an open-and-shut criminal case, will it decide that the possibility of Trump doing what everyone in America knows he is capable of is simply “too salacious” to be reported out? As we saw during both the Trump-Russia and Trump-Ukraine scandals, if conduct by Trump is considered too dastardly to be accepted as having actually happened by the average news-watcher, major-media will give it short shrift or else not report it at all—the better to ensure that it does not lose credibility with (and therefore future profits from) its audience.
Lots and lots of good analysis and basis for a 'theory of the case', IMHO...maybe not everything will turn out as he says, but given the sociopath we are dealing with his starting point is probably a lot closer than most think to reality.
It has been really, really bad...
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