FBI: Trump mixed top secret docs with magazines, other items

[ificandream]

Source: Associated Press/By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.

No space at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized for the storage of classified material, according to the court papers, which laid out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property this month, including “probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.”

The 32-page affidavit — heavily redacted to protect the safety of witnesses and law enforcement officials and “the integrity of the ongoing investigation” — offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Mar-a-Lago long after Trump left the White House. It also reveals the gravity of the government’s concerns that the documents were there illegally.

The document makes clear how the haphazard retention of top secret government records, and the apparent failure to safeguard them despite months of entreaties from U.S. officials, has exposed Trump to fresh legal peril just as he lays the groundwork for another potential presidential run in 2024.

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It's time to jail the Orange Traitor.

[justhanginon]

1. Famous last words. "Heh, Heh, they'll never find them there!"

[Walleye]

2. I think it was deliberate. He thought he was being clever

Maybe somebody read “The Purloined Letter” to him in school. Or the cliff notes

[neoconn]

4. Trump ain't got the sense to do that deliberately

He treated our government like his businesses. No regard for priorities, protocols or standards and stiffs his vendors. (we are of course the vendors in this equation) Its all self serving for him and F the rest. (the rest would be the Top Secret Docs)

The only other plausible scenario would be he was keeping them secrets to sell or to use for his gain (which keeps up with his self serving ideology)

[Walleye]

6. I think he stole that stuff partly out of spite. In his mind he should never had to leave

[Irish_Dem]

14. I think he did too. He wanted revenge for losing the election.

Punish the entire country.

[Effete Snob]

3. They should tell us what magazines

Dear Penthouse,

I never thought I’d be writing a letter to you, but I just had a wild couple of years with a woman from Moldova and a whole bunch of classified information…

[Rollo]

5. Ha!

Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off...

[Effete Snob]

7. ...it all started in a hotel in Moscow...

[Ziggysmom]

9. He wanted to trade government secrets for his tape?

[Irishxs]

8. Or...

He was hiding things in plain sight…

[Novara]

10. Or he's just a fucking slob who has people to keep things straight for him.

The issue isn't the mixed-up materials, rather, the issue is that it's clear he's been through this material and knows what's there. He can't say he didn't see the "classified" markings.

It also means that someone with NO security clearance - himself, as soon as he left Washington - was illegally accessing classified materials. This is a felony, I believe.

Don't focus on the messiness. Look at what it means.

No space at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized for the storage of classified material,

This is how the media should have reported this from the start.

[Lonestarblue]

11. When I read that in the affidavit, my first thought was that Trump had thrown in a bunch

of old newspapers and magazines just to fill boxes and make it appear that he was returning more of the presidential papers than he did, hoping to fool NARA.

I have always believed that Trump is a Russian asset. We know that he is greedy and will do anything for money, so it makes sense for him to steal classified documents to sell, either to Putin or to the highest bidder.

[dclarston13]

12. He figured it worked with his playboys as a kid

Just put it in the newspaper Mom will never know.

[Danascot]

13. So the reading material in the Mar a Lardo toilets

might include newspapers, magazines and top secret documents.

[riversedge]

15. BREAKING: The Washington Post drops bombshell, reveals that Trump carried boxes of classified docume

Past time for someone to put the cuffs on this guy




BREAKING: The Washington Post drops bombshell, reveals that Trump carried boxes of classified documents “on foreign travel, following him to hotel rooms around the world — and even countries considered foreign adversaries of the America.” RT IF YOU THINK TRUMP MUST BE LOCKED UP!

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