This is the first question that popped into my head as soon as I heard that Trump had taken

[Atticus]

"Classified" and "Top Secret" documents to Mar-A-Lago when he left the White House: "Has he sold any yet?"

I have not heard any mention of this by those reporting about the theft, but is it at all unreasonable to suspect?

[secondwind]

1. It is most likely what he will do..............

His pals in North Korea and Russian would be very grateful.....

[gab13by13]

2. That line of thought is only a distraction.

Trump stole and destroyed documents to cover up his crimes, to obstruct justice.

[Atticus]

4. I hope you are correct. I am just not as sure certain about his motivation as you are. We could

both be right.

[lagomorph777]

12. No, I genuinely believe he's been selling them.

He started giving away secrets to the Russians within days of occupying the Oval Orifice.

[gab13by13]

18. Putin isn't paying trump for anything,

Trump may be giving it.

[lagomorph777]

19. Debt forbearance. Putin has a really big stick.

[agingdem]

21. here's a thought...

Trump has zero cognitive awareness...in his twisted mind he's a brilliant businessman as well as a brilliant statesman...and anyone who cannot see his wonderfulness is stupid, lazy, weak blah blah blah....when he stiffs lawyers, contractors, scams the IRS/ banks, cons his followers into pouring money into his private coffers, it only feeds into his self-serving ego and affirms "I can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters "...I think the top secret documents, Kim Jong-Un love letters, Sharpie weather map, and every piece of paper he didn't shred, flush, or eat is going on display in his President Donald J. Trump Library..and because he's a self serving narcissistic conman, he'll charge his idiotic enablers/worshippers big bucks for the privilege of scanning highly classified documents...

[MLAA]

3. Too late, he sold all Top Secrets while still in office.

[Leghorn21]

7. He absolutely did, M

Not a "shred" of doubt he was selling our secrets, starting on Jan 20, 2017
Jared and who tf knows who else

Maybe it's just a stone miracle that America is still somewhat of a country at this point, all things considered

[MLAA]

8. Exactly

[Whiskeytide]

5. I always believed his foreign policy was to ...

… simply endear himself to the authoritarian interests he admired and/or was indebted to. What would stop him from telling them anything they wanted to know?

[NCjack]

6. You raise a valid concern. That begs the question: Did Putin give

him a list of secret documents to be delivered to Russia?

I hope the House forms another committee to investigate the details of the secret documents removed (stolen?) from the White House. In TFG's term, what secret documents did he ever possess and which ones are now missing? I (as hopefully our counter-espinage agencies do) suspect that as part of his arrangement with Putin, TFG has given to them most of what he could get his hands on.

[lagomorph777]

13. I hope FBI is investigating this. It's not a political matter anymore; it's major felonies.

[Captain Zero]

24. IT IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE NOW

If one document he took ends up overseas, then we can assume others did too.

[lagomorph777]

25. Yup - we have to assume that some or all of these documents have been compromised.

[NanceGreggs]

9. I was just about to post the same thing.

A failed "pResident" steals classified documents - bad enough on its own.

Add the fact that said "pResident" is drowning in debt due to mounting legal fees, business losses, and loan payments on his properties coming due - hmmmm.

[Pobeka]

10. I think there are 3 possible motives:

1) Most likely -- he thought he was going to be reinstalled as POTUS sometime in Feb and took the documents for "safe keeping" so prying eyes wouldn't discover them in the interim.
2) Sell them
3) He's such a narcissist -- he wanted momentos of the shit he got away with for four years.

[JT45242]

11. Mix of obstruction and sales

Those defaulting loans won't pay themselves -- so Putin's puppet bank (Deutchbank) will liekly take classified documents in lieu of payments or receive payments form others for the docs.

I would guess a lot of what was stolen was done to cover up potential criminality of himself and Ivanka (let the others twist in the wind).

[lagomorph777]

15. Yup - probably both things.

[kentuck]

14. I have no doubts that he would trade "information" for rights to build a Trump Tower in N. Korea.

Top Secret or Otherwise.

[bluestarone]

16. I'm sure that putin knows what

TFG knew! Everything and i mean EVERYTHING! (The scary part is the dumb SOB probably could have pardoned everything he did) Hell if nothing else, it could have tied up our court system FOREVER! They EVER get control again LOOK OUT!

[hamsterjill]

17. Make no mistake.

With Trump, it is always about money. He will sell them (or has already sold them) to the highest bidder.

Much of what he does makes me believe that he is trying to keep Putin happy - whether by being in debt financially to him, or by understanding that Putin kills those who cross him or are no longer valuable to him.

[gab13by13]

20. Putin isn't paying Trump a dime,

but he could allow a Trump tower in Moscow for Top Secret information. I hope we got all of our spies out of Russia before Trump took over.

[Retrograde]

26. Bingo - Donnie's ego trumps everything

He's been wanting a building in Moscow for quite a few years: I'm sure Putin was sweetening the deal by promising to pick up the building costs and just let him slap his name on it. Just send a few of those boring documents Vlad's way.

I'm just as worried about what the Saudis have been dangling in front of him: we know Jared's debts on at least one property were suddenly paid off.

[jmowreader]

22. The term is "payment in kind"

“Tovarich, we will deduct $2000 from your debt for every Confidential document, $5000 for every Secret document, $10,000 for every Top Secret document and an additional $5000 for every code word-protected document. We will deduct $50,000 for every document that has NOFORN printed on it, regardless of classification.”

He was probably passing them over during his “golf” trips.

[global1]

23. He Took The Documents So That He Could Turn Mar-A-Lago Into The Tr**p Presidential Library....nt