Explain this to me...

[Septua]

If Trump did have 'highly classified documents' at Mar-a-Lago, how did he get them in the first place? Surely, that type of document isn't kept in a desk drawer in the Oval Office. He would have to tell someone to fetch him some document and sign off or something to keep it.

And since he has approved unsealing the warrant it would seem to suggest there's nothing to incriminate him, relative to highly classified stuff.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. So, he's gonna claim some staffer made a mistake?

Yeah, I don’t think that’s gonna fly.

Probably why they gave him all kind of chances to return the documents he stole.

[dalton99a]

2. Someone told him what to get

As president and commander-in-chief he had access to the whole candy store

[underpants]

3. I think the Archives knew what was missing

That’s my take away. They heard that he took boxes AND they already knew stuff was missing. Trump, of course, was granted a courtesy and he manipulated or took advantage of it. When they oh so nicely asked for OUR STUFF back he just thought he could asshole them into shying away. At this point it really just Trump trying to show that no one tells him what to do.

My 2¢

[peppertree]

4. Cheeto has a talent for committing crimes others are FORCED to cover up

Roy Cohn taught him well: When committing wrongdoing, make sure influential people also take part (such that they'll want to cover their butts), or that its reveal would be an embarrassment to many (such that no one even wants it to go public).

A lot of them no doubt have to do with Israel and the UAE - which, you'll recall, each got millions of vaccine doses in Dec. 2020 (when not even doctors, the military, and first responders had them here - or barely).

Another of the folders, I'm sure, has to do with the record-size bailout Cheeto ordered the IMF to lend to his pal Macri in 2018 - 80% of which was used to finance the dollarizing and offshoring of local assets (leaving Argentina with the tab to this day).

Either folder, if made public, would be an earth-shaking scandal for Cheeto. But, unfortunately, also for the U.S. - which is why they'll never be made public.

To say nothing of whatever else is in them boxes.

[secondwind]

5. Isn't POTUS given highly classified information EVERY DAY of the week?

[unblock]

7. Yes, but classified documents aren't just left on desks.

Classified documents are routinely returned to secure file cabinets, typically behind triple-lock doors at the end of the day.

They track every item and who checked it out and is responsible for it.

[brush]

8. In the White House where it stays. It's never supposed to leave...

and be stored in a Florida basement.

They've got him red-handed.

[Claustrum]

9. I think he still gets some kind of security briefing on a weekly basis as ex-president.

I think president Biden has asked to stop the briefing.

[niyad]

10. President Biden stopped them in Feb 2021

[Claustrum]

11. Thanks for the correction n/t

[niyad]

12. You are most welcome. This has come up a number of times in this

bizarre week.

[brush]

6. Let's not kid ourselves. The last thing trump wants to happen...

is there to be a reveal of this information.