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How did Trump get all those sensitive documents out of the White House when strict protocols were in place to safeguard them? Did he have help bypassing normal procedures?
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)He knows how to steal things.
OLDMDDEM
(1,575 posts)Laurian
(2,593 posts)Werent they obligated monitor their location and get them back to safe keeping?
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Walleye
(31,027 posts)There was nobody there with the guts to stop him and apparently it was common practice. God knows how much crap is in the residence when he finally decided to give up and move out. Im sure theres plenty of rooms there with classified documents that nobody was allowed to go look at. So then when he moved they treated it as household goods.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)to him and didnt get them back ..immediately, let alone 18 months later.
Walleye
(31,027 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,114 posts)Documents he knew our enemies wanted and would pay top dollar for.
The person who brought the documents was just doing his job then.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)Whoever provided them would have known they werent returned.
Irish_Dem
(47,114 posts)That he had a vital reason to keep the documents.
No one is going to argue.
Walleye
(31,027 posts)Trump refused to give them back and kept them in the residence, but what do they do hold him at gunpoint? I dont think so
imanamerican63
(13,798 posts)With bribes, with fear and any other means of cooperating acknowledge people?
MissMillie
(38,559 posts)I wonder if people who were tasked with keeping track of things were overwhelmed due to staffing shortages.
What I mean is that I think Intelligence staff and NARA staff were aware that materials were in the possession of (then) POTUS, but attempts to retrieve it fell flat because WH staff were leaving en masse. Intelligence and NARA had no one to work with.
Irish_Dem
(47,114 posts)I don't see Trump sitting on $billion dollar documents for any length of time.
MissMillie
(38,559 posts)But I have no doubt that he exploited the chaos to keep the docs.
Irish_Dem
(47,114 posts)There is no doubt.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,114 posts)Especially if you are POTUS.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)Everybody knows he wasn't muscle fucking boxes out of the WH himself.
And, the selection of what sensitive info to steal needed some expert advice from others. Everybody knows trump has no intellectual curiosity for anything that he can't profit from.
Yeah, he had help, from folks at the highest levels of government.