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

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Last edited Sat Aug 27, 2022, 09:30 PM - Edit history (1)

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-criminal-investigations-government-and-politics-4ee554f467252929f96c70d42a93a05d



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.

[GusBob]

1. It's Trump. There had to pictures

I’d bet there were pics of himself

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Exactly. His two biggest motivators $ and ego. Always

thought he could do absolutely anything in business then in govt.

This is where he was served very badly by legal counsel in my opinion. He probably told his counsel to fight this document demand. And they actually helped him break the law.

I still think that mixing top secret documents with magazines and pictures adds more credibility to the notion that he was hoarding as HIS stuff vs any secret plan to sell secrets. Although it could be in the back of his mind.

[GusBob]

4. Ego and money. And Television

I am betting the documents and the articles relate to one another

I read him and that Apprentice guy Burnett are planning a new show, I’d bet all this stuff is script material

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Could be. He's probably nixed 2024... So looking

at other ways to feed his ego

Wonder what happened to that Apprentice outtake of him being racist

[EnergizedLib]

3. Don't tell me

He didn’t know what he was doing or that this was an accident.

Go to jail, do not collect $200, do not pass go.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. "Melanie!"

“Did I or did I not tell you to put the Top Secret papers in the banker’s box!?”



“Look at me when I’m talking to you!”

[Deminpenn]

6. This is what happens when you don't expect

to have to leave your office. Last second packing, just shoveling stuff into boxes and unorganized chaos.

[stopdiggin]

7. that AND the fact that TFG

had a long standing history of casual disdain and disregard for security while in the WH (not only documents, but briefings, organization, apparatus, communication, assets, tech - pretty much the whole schmear)

So, yes - a complete cluster___ in hasty exit. But precipitated by years of flagrant mishandling and blatant disdain ...
(coupled with subordinates that allowed him to break the law every day)

[Deminpenn]

11. No argument

nt

[Takket]

9. oh really?

The sounds like something you would do if you were trying to hide what was in the boxes, which goes to intent to commit a crime.

Unless they are going to argue he just pushed everything off a desk into a box!

[Sogo]

10. Exactly.

Or, if you want to pass a document off inconspicuously, slide it in-between the pages of a magazine or newspaper....

[Deminpenn]

12. Like the Red Ryder BB gun ad

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. If I was a traitor I'd hide it in a safe deposit box on an island somewhere

BUT he knew ! He had gone through the first batch last year! So if the boxes were similar, he knew there were important documents mixed in with magazines and papers.

[kentuck]

14. It was the perfect place to hide them if...

...you were going to mix them with other boxes and move them to Maralago. It was a clever plan - he just got caught.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. So you think he intermingled from the start. I was thinking more like

He knew they were in the after going thru the boxes at the end of 2021. But what matters is that he didn't give them all back! Most flagrant sign of guilt.

[kentuck]

17. He was very secretive in packing the boxes, it was reported.

He knew what was in the boxes and he knew what boxes they were in. Otherwise, why would he not accept any help from his most trusted aides?

I think he hoarded all the documents he wanted in his residence bedroom at the White House and he requested that a lock be put on the door. When he was forced to leave, he packed the boxes the way he wanted and intermingled them with all the other boxes. With all the clippings and photos and letters, they all would look nondescript.

Then he moved them to Maralago and we don't know what happened to them once they were there?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Wow! Where'd you hear that? That's explosive K!

[kentuck]

19. What part?

It has been reported on DU and elsewhere.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. How trump packed boxes in WH before leaving

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Never mind... Found it on The Week. How'd I miss this?

It's a critical piece of info! Thanks. Huge!!!

One person familiar with the scramble to pack up Trump's belongings suggested some of the documents Trump piled up in the White House residence may have inadvertently ended up at Mar-a-Lago. But multiple people close to the former president told the Post that "Trump was very secretive about the packing of boxes that were retrieved from Mar-a-Lago last month, and did not let other aides — including some of his most senior advisers — look at them.

[mnmoderatedem]

20. magazines. Golf Digest?

just an educated guess.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. If they had him in cover after his hole in one (bs)