The only 3 questions of the Trump stolen document scandal

[RAB910]

There is a lot of false framing by the anti-American right/GOP. The reality is there are just three questions that matter when it comes to this scandal.

1) Did Trump steal government documents, including top secret information? - YES

2) Did Trump return all the stolen documents when he claimed he did? - NO

3) Have all the stolen documents been returned? - TBD (to be determined)


All the nonsense about the warrant and the search is just intended to distract from the real issue, which is summed up by those questions. Now the real issue is, has the government recovered all of the documents he stole, and if they haven't, where are the missing documents?

[Raven]

1. There is one other question (at least in my mind): WHY did he take them. n/t

[RAB910]

2. While that can be a curiosity, this is not a murder so motive isn't important

he stole documents and that is a crime and the one we are dealing with (along with his efforts to cover up and obstruct the investigation of his crimes)

[2naSalit]

8. However...

Whether there was murder or not should be in the TBD column.

[Raven]

9. I don't think we're dealing with just one crime.

[RAB910]

13. right now we know he stole documents and lied that and obstructed justice when they government tried

to get them back.

Other crimes could be discovered but there are already enough crimes to prosecute him for criminal wrongdoing.

[tinrobot]

16. And more importantly - Who else saw the documents?

I suspect the answer to that will not be pretty.

[doc03]

3. IMO unless they have some kind of proof that he shared them with

say Russia he will never be charged.

[RAB910]

6. what's the point of laws pertaining to former presidents if they are not enforced

that law was literally passed to address former presidents stealing the documents of the American people

[doc03]

7. We can't go after former presidents like a dictatorship or a banana republic

blah blah blah. That will be the excuse they use.

[gab13by13]

4. Where are the missing documents?

I'm guessing some are in Saudi Arabia, some are in Russia, for starters.

[RAB910]

5. more than likley

[Delmette2.0]

15. What is still missing?

[malaise]

10. That simple

Lock him up!

[gab13by13]

11. My theory

Trump returned some of the documents because those were the documents he had time to make copies of.

The surveillance video of boxes going in and out of the storage room were the rest of the documents being copied.

I bet that Trump has copies of all of the documents he stole.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

[RAB910]

12. If that is true and the FBI found the copies

that could be particularly damning if they were classified documents

[usonian]

14. My wild guess is that the normally meticulous, "take your time" DOJ sprung into action

when some documents were spotted abroad in places they should never have been, or that foreign actors tipped their hand by doing something that could only have been done if they possessed secret info.

Given TFG's history, I wouldn't be surprised if some bogus information was given to him, knowing that he would ship it abroad. (Hint: that "one week walk into Kyiv that wasn't?)