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Uncle Joe

(58,900 posts)
Tue May 21, 2024, 03:30 PM May 21

Lawyers found classified docs in Trump's bedroom 4 months after Mar-a-Lago search



The revelation was contained in a newly unsealed opinion that a federal judge issued in 2023.

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In a footnote, Howell also noted that another Trump adviser connected to his Save America PAC had acknowledged scanning the contents of the box that contained the classified materials in 2021 and storing them on a personal laptop provided by the PAC.

Howell, who as chief judge presided over the initial grand jury proceedings that led to Trump’s criminal charges in the classified documents case, wrote in her opinion that one of Trump’s close aides, Walt Nauta, was “clearly dissembling” when he interviewed with the FBI about his own role in moving boxes later found to contain classified materials. Nauta was ultimately charged alongside Trump with attempting to obstruct government officials from reclaiming the classified documents.

Howell also recounted in painstaking detail the battles between Smith’s team and Trump over searches of his other properties and whether his attorneys had been attempting to frustrate the prosecutors’ efforts to enforce their subpoena for the remaining classified records at Trump’s home.

In addition to allowing Smith’s team to question Corcoran, she agreed that 88 documents Corcoran had been attempting to withhold via attorney-client privilege must also be disclosed because they were “sufficiently ‘in furtherance’ of the former president’s criminal scheme.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/21/trump-classified-documents-bedroom-00159182

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Lonestarblue

(10,489 posts)
1. I wonder how many enemies Trump shared classified information with.
Tue May 21, 2024, 03:37 PM
May 21

I doubt we’ll ever know, but isn’t it interesting that recently we learned that Trump has been sending envoys to other countries as in conducting a shadow government. Are those envoys sharing top-secret information with promises of more to come if they help Trump get elected and he can then share up-to-date intelligence?

Uncle Joe

(58,900 posts)
3. I would wager it would be someone or people
Tue May 21, 2024, 03:49 PM
May 21

with a lot of money, no respect for democracy, journalism, women, minorities, climate change and most likely a male (s) (but not necessarily) with the same general chauvinistic, authoritarian, corporate supremacist or oligarchic outlook on life.

Follow the money, connections, language and actions for common denominators.

flying_wahini

(6,854 posts)
2. We can be sure that they went to the highest bidder. No morals or ethics, these guys.
Tue May 21, 2024, 03:41 PM
May 21

No telling how much valuable shit he stole.

Uncle Joe

(58,900 posts)
6. I believe it's primarily because he's a morally bankrupt oligarch with declining political power,
Tue May 21, 2024, 06:27 PM
May 21

and they don't want to upset that trend.



That's my optimistic point of view.
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