F.B.I. Preparing to Investigate How Classified Material Went to Trump's Home

[AZProgressive]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are in the preliminary stages of investigating the handling of classified material found at former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida home after he left office, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

The effort, led by the F.B.I., stems from the discovery of classified information in 15 boxes that contained documents, mementos, gifts and letters that had been taken from the White House at the end of Mr. Trump’s term in apparent violation of the requirements for turning over all presidential records to the National Archives.

The development was reported earlier by The Washington Post.

The National Archives said in February that it had consulted with the Justice Department about the classified material, which it retrieved the previous month from Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. The agency described the materials in question as “classified national security information.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/us/trump-classified-information.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

[garybeck]

1. But.... Hillary's emails!!!!

[Cozmo]

2. Sorry, but I don't trust the FBI

[twodogsbarking]

18. Can't say I trust them either and I am not sorry.

[lagomorph777]

28. It's run by a Trump appointee. The contraband was discovered in FEBRUARY.

WTF has the FBI been doing about this between February and April? Waiting for the statute of limitations to expire?

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. MF45 probably gave the best stuff to Putin,

and sold the rest to the Saudis or China.

Lock his ass up.

[agingdem]

9. no he didn't..the orange cretin

intends to display the top secret docs in his donor-fleeced presidential library...

[dweller]

4. While we wait ...

https://m.

✌🏻

[Hoyt]

5. Hope there is something damning in the records. Love letters with Kim Jung Un

— or boxes movers took by mistake, whether true or trump’s explanation — ain’t going to look good.

[oldsoftie]

20. Probably to Putin: "Should I get on my knees or just bend over?"

[Scrivener7]

21. Documents with the highest security clearances just hanging around to be

picked up by the movers by mistake?

They aren't sitting around in old liquor boxes in the garage. This wasn't a movers' mistake.

The mere fact of those documents existing outside secure locations is damning. The damn is already cooked in.

[Hoyt]

33. They need to tell us what is in the documents. What do you think trump was going to do with them

a year later, when the security aspect was likely of no value.

[Scrivener7]

34. There is no way to answer that unless someone looks at them.

And no, they really don't need to tell us what is in them if they are of the highest security designation.

The crime is in their presence in tfg's house.

[Hoyt]

35. They've had them for 2 months. What the hell have they been doing? Having them in his house isn't

going to get trump unless there was something in them.

My guess is that if there was something damning in the records, we would have heard about it.

If they are "high security" -- which is questionable -- officials can say trump had documents that showed where every missile and bomb is stored in the USA and he had been trying to sell it to Putin, China, Iran, etc. Yeah, they've got him. But I doubt that is what was stuck in the closet.


Remember Sandy Berger--

Sandy Berger-2003

Fifty-eight year old Sandy Berger, the former National Security Adviser under the Clinton Administration, illegally took classified documents from the National Archives on more than one occasion. During his visits to the Archives, it was determined that Berger folded the documents in his clothes, walked out of the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and placed them under a nearby construction trailer for retrieval later on. Two years later Berger was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and probation and fined $50,000. He also also had to pay $6,905 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation. Berger also lost his security clearance and license to practice law.
________

Gotta admit, I'd settle for seeing trump in an orange vest picking up trash along the interstates.

[Scrivener7]

37. The two months is not proof of anything. January 6 was 16 months ago and nothing has happened.

And Sandy Berger took a handful of documents.

But anyway, what are you saying? Is this another area where you think we should move on whistling, as if nothing happened?

[Hoyt]

39. I'm saying this is another bombshell that has/will fizzle. I'm over trump, he lost. Screw him.

[Scrivener7]

40. Sadly, none of us is over trump.

[Hoyt]

41. None of the "I can't live, and Democracy is over, if trump is not indicted" crowd

are over trump.

I am, he lost, but he keeps winning as Democrats eat their own— Bragg, Garland, etc.

Sorry, I’m not letting that MFer keep me up at night. Learned my lesson with Fitzmas. There are issues that are more important in this country, other than trump.

[Scrivener7]

45. You have completely - and I think intentionally - missed my point, but have a nice day.

[RockRaven]

6. "Oh, yeah, that... We'll get right on it."

[twodogsbarking]

7. Maybe there is more. They should go search Moron Lago again.

[gab13by13]

8. Some of the classified material was the highest classification,

meaning if it fell into the wrong hands it would be a threat to our national security. After a month or so it's nice that DOJ found the time to do a preliminary investigation. WTF.

What about looking for the missing classified documents?

[IronLionZion]

10. Butter Emails

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Protecting upper class crooks for peace and safety

HOW did the items get there? They were - follow me - STOLEN!

Can you believe it? They didn't walk there all by their baby selves. Santa and the Tooth Fairy didn't deliver them.

They were light-fingered! Grand larceny of national secrets. Theft.

Update: And note the tentative headline. "Preparing". Not actually doing it, just thinking about it. And the items traveled there of their own volition. Like the FBI doesn't want to touch this with a 10 foot pole, so don't expect too much out of it. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? WHO ARE THEY PROTECTING? Why the weak effort??

[Grokenstein]

12. "Golly, however did THIS come to pass???"

I'll take "Things You'll Never Hear a Cop Say When YOU Get Caught Red-Handed" for five million, Alex.

[Princess Turandot]

13. How did they find out that the documents etc. had been sent there?

[RussBLib]

14. yet to be revealed

that Orange Ass needs to suffer some real consequences for lifting Classified docs. I trust he will.

[sarcasmo]

15. Theft, that's how.

[Botany]

16. "F.B.I. Preparing to Investigate How Classified Material Went to Trump's Home"

Ah, he illegally took it. End of story.

BTW I guarantee a lot had to do w/ Trump & Russia and other material he passed onto Vlad Putin.

[Achilleaze]

17. Lock the Republican Traitor-in-Chief UP

Now. Evil Republican criminal and traitor.

[twodogsbarking]

19. Obviously the deranged, radical left wing liberals

sneaked them in to frame Trump. See it on FOX soon.

[yardwork]

22. They'll slow-walk this too.

[louis-t]

23. How did it get to his home?

By truck, I imagine.

[NCjack]

24. TDFG has had plenty of time to auction the best stuff.

[usaf-vet]

25. I'm admitting my ignorance about classified material. But I thought I read somewhere presidents...

... are empowered to declassify any classified material they choose.

If this is true, how long before TFG claims he declassified all 15 boxes.

[Mz Pip]

26. How?

It’s pretty straightforward. He told his movers to put those boxes in the van and no one stopped them.

[dchill]

27. "Preparing to Investigate..." "...stages of investigating..."

Just wait until I get done preliminating!!! Then you'll see!!!

[lagomorph777]

29. I wuz just fixin' to start thinkin' about plannin' to do sumpin' about it.

Just as soon as the mid-terms are over...

[dchill]

30. There you go! Exactly!

[dchill]

31. How will there ever be an investigation (or report) ...

...about what they DON'T find in the probably moldy and dusty boxes of "evidence?"

[msfiddlestix]

32. Preparing to Investigate... got it.

[angrychair]

36. Oh noes! Not more investigations..

This Kabuki theater is getting old. So far the FBI/DOJ plan to deal with trump and his inner circle is:

1) say your investigating

2) pretend to shuffle papers until press find another shinny object

3) insist "no one is above the law" to those few still paying attention/asking about accountability. Show no work or progress.

4) still do nothing but shuffle papers

5) quietly end investigation. Blame some non-specific reason that no one can do anything about it.

6) run out the clock on statute of limitations on even minor charges.

This is a rich, connected, old white man's world. People like me don't matter.

[KPN]

44. There was an old saying I learned while visiting relatives in Communist Poland in

the 1970's; "we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us".

Here in the US with the DOJ these days it seems more like: "we pretend to work, and they pay us." We being the DOJ.

[twodogsbarking]

38. Putin gave it all back to Trump after he lost the election.

[ancianita]

42. Preliminary stages of investigating?? Puh-lease. The FBI's slow drag bias is showing.

[KPN]

43. Preparing to investigate?! JHC!