Trump Reportedly Took Documents That 'Didn't Come From Trump's Time in the White House'

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.politicalflare.com/2022/08/trump-reportedly-took-documents-that-didnt-come-from-trumps-time-in-the-white-house/


*snip*


Further in the article, there was a rather innocuous line that I haven’t seen reported much. It was in regards to when NARA started to look through the boxes taken from Trump. The Washington Post reported, “Instead, when Archives employees began opening up and sifting through the material, they noticed an immediate problem. The boxes arrived without any kind of logs or inventories to describe their content, according to a person familiar with the recovery. Instead, they contained a hodgepodge of documents, including some that didn’t even come from Trump’s time in the White House.”

Did you catch that last part?

“Instead, they contained a hodgepodge of documents, including some that didn’t even come from Trump’s time in the White House.”

What in the world is Trump doing with classified documents from an earlier administration? Were those from Obama? Bush? I have a strong feeling it’s Obama, and I can only imagine why. Trump had such a deep-seated hatred for Obama, I can see him stealing documents that he thought would incriminate or cause trouble for Obama.

Or could he have taken older documents that were concerning things he did in the past?

We will probably never know, since the documents were classified and by the time they are declassified we will probably all be gone. But it’s frightening to think of what Trump was planning, since we know he’s a sociopath who wouldn’t stop at anything to gain power and money.

*snip*

[tanyev]

1. Time for Grabby McGrabberton to get his grabby little hands slapped.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

44. I'm all for having them chopped off.

And they can send him to Saudi Arabia to do it.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trump would steal documents to damage his opponents, especially if he was jealous of them.

I hope Obama is being informed of any pertinent information.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Trump has actual pictures of Obama grabbing a smoke on top of the WH.

Kompromat!

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. While wearing a tan suit.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Listening to some Marvin Gaye on his hi-tech ear buds.

[sprinkleeninow]

22. After a meal of radicchio or what was it? 🤔

Arugula?

[NullTuples]

23. A hot dog with Dijon mustard!

(though he actually asked for spicy brown first)

[sprinkleeninow]

27. Yah, Dijon!

[wnylib]

26. Maybe a hot dog with Dijon mustard.

[Alwaysna]

53. And not wearing his flag lapel pin.

[wnylib]

61. Oh, the unpatriotic horror!

[SergeStorms]

70. What, no ketchup?

Or as elitist southern republicans say, catsup?

[ProfessorGAC]

71. A Guy From Chicago?

Ketchup on a hot dog is heresy around these parts!

[wnylib]

72. Not for a sophisticated Dem from Chicago.

That was the whole issue about the Dijon mustard "scandal." Obama's campaign people feared that his Dijon mustard request at a public appearance was too elite and not populist enough. Obama said that he would be himself and could connect better that way by being authentic instead of packaged.

[True Blue American]

69. That is it!

[Joinfortmill]

20. 👍

[Sogo]

3. I'm betting some of those prior administration documents had to do the Kennedy assassination....

It would be just like Trump to want to be one of the only ones who knows the intelligence about that.

[Irish_Dem]

9. I thought that right away.

Wants info on Kennedy's death. Anything event with intense historical speculation.

Or tabloid type interest. Stuff like UFO's.

Anything he can brag about to his MAL guests and friends.

[mchill]

14. I was a little kid when Kennedy assassinated and

I’ll never forget they were sealing many documents on this topic for 75 years, to be put in the Archives. Nobody would have access, period. That should be 2038. Perhaps they are just photos, but it always felt like something more to do with who what why and the country could not take the news. Mind you, a 10 year-old’s perspective.

[wnylib]

28. I was 14 and I had a similar perspective.

[halfulglas]

42. Is the National Enquirer still paying big bucks for that?

Maybe they got pics of Alien Babies from Area 57.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Kinda bizarre though, right? His whole 2016 campaign was about Hilary's emails - Lock Her Up!

Yet he seemly forgets about that core issue and plunders the US Intelligence files like a kid in a candy store...

[oldsoftie]

60. Oswald shot him. End of story.

[LiberalArkie]

75. I am thinking about 9/11

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. My guess...

He took everything with his name on it. And then some…

[calimary]

39. Whatever he took, he did it because it either helped him or hurt somebody he hated

or felt threatened by.

[mopinko]

6. he was getting help. flynn would know where a lot of bodies were buried.

and i'd guess he was a busy lil bees during his short tenure.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Also came in uninvited at the end.

Secretly.

[mopinko]

11. yup. and left moles everywhere,

i'm lookin at you kash patel, and the rest of the moles that got crammed in while the biden team was iced out. and i aint blinkin.

[crickets]

13. Bet on it.

I doubt Flynn was the only little helper he had. Doubtless tfg was looking for dirt on Obama and Biden for personal reasons, but if he had people looking through everything, going back who knows how far...

It sounds like the research project from hell, perhaps an assignment directly from Putin himself.

Oh, please let's not bother just throwing the book at him. Throw the entire National Archives and the Library of Congress at his pointy bald head. This man is so evil, it's hard to wrap my mind around it.

[Joinfortmill]

21. 👍

[2naSalit]

43. That's a good call.

Flynn has been dirty for a long time.

[H2O Man]

10. Recommended.

I heard that last night. I think he took things about the investigation of his 2016 campaign's ties to Russian military intelligence. Lots of other things, too, of course. But that was what Patel was threatening to publish. Sources and methods, right there.

[wnylib]

34. That's what I thought of, too.

Intel from before his administration would likely be anything about his Russian connections during the 2016 campaign.

[mjvpi]

65. Yes, my imagination took off when I read the post, but this take sounds spot on.

This is the shit that ate his lunch.

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Death by a Thousand Cuts......

Trump's legal life and his MAGA Fan Club....wait 3 months.

[Recursion]

17. Krivov, Karlov, Polshikov, Erovinkin, Malanin, Churkin, Gorokhov, Voronenkov

All Russian diplomats. All killed within a 3 month period after Trump took office. Some fell out of windows. Some "shot themselves" while tied up with a pillowcase over their heads.

[Joinfortmill]

24. 👍

[crickets]

31. Damn. I remember that.

So many people were "falling" out of windows, it was strange. *sigh*

[Recursion]

77. A Russian doctor fell out of a window *during a conference call* on Covid

early in the pandemic. Russian windows are apex predators.

[2naSalit]

45. Yup.

[Kid Berwyn]

51. A series of unfortunate events is no accident.

Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017

by Jim Sciutto
CNN, Sept. 9, 2019

In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.

A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.

The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.

The disclosure to the Russians by the President, though not about the Russian spy specifically, prompted intelligence officials to renew earlier discussions about the potential risk of exposure, according to the source directly involved in the matter.

At the time, then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo told other senior Trump administration officials that too much information was coming out regarding the covert source, known as an asset. An extraction, or “exfiltration” as such an operation is referred to by intelligence officials, is an extraordinary remedy when US intelligence believes an asset is in immediate danger.

The source was considered the highest level source for the US inside the Kremlin, high up in the national security infrastructure, according to the source familiar with the matter and a former senior intelligence official.

According to CNN’s sources, the spy had access to Putin and could even provide images of documents on the Russian leader’s desk.

Continues…

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html

[crickets]

63. 👆👆

[Recursion]

76. How that moment didn't end TFG's presidency is beyond me

Though there's no shortage of moments like that. Another classic was "I didn't say Israel! They all said I said it but I didn't!" while Netanyahu looks on appalled.

[Joinfortmill]

18. It gets worse and worse. Guy's totally corrupt.

[OAITW r.2.0]

25. Everyday it gets a little worse for Trump.

A new line of inquiry into obstruction of justice....or espionage...or whatever this walking wannabe mob-boss gets tied to.

[onenote]

19. The article doesn't say those were records from a prior administration

I read it as suggesting that some of Trump's personal documents from before his election were tossed in the boxes along with presidential records.

[marybourg]

38. I read it that way, too.

[ShazzieB]

47. Yes,

I read somewhere that the contents of the first 15 boxes he returned to the NARA were a complete hodgepodge, classified documents randomly mixed with other papers, no organization or anything.

I can't recall where I read that at the moment. If I remember, I'll edit this post ot add a link.

[Tom Rinaldo]

49. Nor does it say that those docuents were among those that are classified

Not all of the government documents that Trump carried off illegally were classified. It is left unclear by that text.

[reACTIONary]

67. +100 nt

[Aussie105]

29. Why does it matter?

TFG had no legal right to take any documents with him once he was demoted out of the White House.

If those documents were from his administration it's no less of a crime than if they were from a previous one.

He simply took stuff that he thought he could monetise later.

Intelligent minds need to analyse what implications Trump's theft of classified documents has, and will have.

[live love laugh]

36. I think it matters bc ** claims they were HIS docs. But certainly the ones prior to him weren't.

[onenote]

40. Again, not clear from the statement that the documents referred to are from a prior administration

They could be referring--and I wouldn't be at all surprised--to documents that were created by or for Trump prior to his election. Might be nothing more than some of his golf scorecards, given how sloppily the boxing up of documents was handled.

[SunSeeker]

30. K & R for exposure.

[JoeOtterbein]

32. K n R ! Thanks for posting!

More important news!

[Warpy]

33. Gen Z has something to look forward to

We got to see a lot of Nixon's garbage exposed, something we all knew at the time but couldn't prove. Well, it's been proven: he was scum. Gen Z will see this piece of traitorous shit exposed, but probably no surprises for them, either.

You just klnow he was convinced Obama's Kenyan birth certificate was in there.

The most dangerous people in the world are fools who believe their own bullshit.

[raging moderate]

37. I remember the bad rumors about Nixon during his re-election campaign.

Nixon supporters (with the help of some news organizations) managed to downplay those rumors. Then, early in the second Nixon administration, most of those rumors turned out to be true. I hope we can manage to avoid a similar fiasco. I do see some encouraging signs that justice may prevail this time. I hope so, because it seems worse this time.

[Warpy]

41. As long as it isolates him and keeps him busy trying to stay out of prison

it will be good.

I was in Boston reading the muckraking tabloid press in town. It was amazing what they got right. Right in the middle of it, I spent a year and a half in DC, where I got to get passive aggressive over part of his enemies list. Couldn't find a thing, honestly.

[C Moon]

35. He did say "What about Obama?"

Maybe he was going to try to make it look like President Obama stole documents, too.

[Solly Mack]

46. Why is he still free?

I know, I know.

Still. Damn.

[CentralMass]

52. He is a greased pig.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

48. It is past time to restore the 'dungeons' at Alcatraz for housing the traitor.

[flying_wahini]

68. Oh I prefer GITMO for him ,but I'm not picky.

[catchnrelease]

74. I suggested this a couple of weeks ago

Call it The Presidential Suite--let him think it's a special place for the greatest (traitor) president in the history of the US!!! Then throw away the key.

[Kid Berwyn]

50. Odd interest for a guy who hates to read.

Souvenir hunter.

Suuuuure.

[Alwaysna]

54. Who is going to read & explain these documents to him?

[allegorical oracle]

55. Obama for sure, maybe others. Likely scrounging for anything to do with what intel

was filed on his activities in Russia.

[gulliver]

56. What if you let a mob boss have access to all the law enforcement information in the country?

He'd go in to try to find out what law enforcement has on him, how close they were to getting him, who he could drag into the mud or blackmail for leverage, who the witnesses were against him...

[Nevilledog]

57. Blast from the past

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Melody speaks gif fluently🌻🇺🇸🌻
@UnpaintedMelody
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Oh look…this video is back.

Do take a moment to watch this one and the next in the thread.

Old enough to remember when this actually happened…

Seth Hettena
@seth_hettena
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Mafia underboss who confessed to 19 murders, explains in 1993 how he would "reach" Donald Trump.
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6:21 PM · Aug 27, 2022

[Pepsidog]

58. How else can he support his failing company, flea markets of sensitive docs for sale.

[jmowreader]

59. This pretty much confirms he didn't take them as souvenirs

Most of the stuff the Russians would want to know was created before Trump was president. Trump defunded the whole government to pay for his vanity projects and his agent meetings at golf courses, so the big agencies really didn’t have the money for original research.

[DeeDeeNY]

62. Who could have allowed this?

How was he allowed to take any documents at all, let alone from previous administrations??

[Brainfodder]

64. ..and still not under arrest!

[jaxexpat]

66. I would like to believe Obama had info about Trump.

It would be prudent for a president to anticipate a traitor. It would be on Trump's "my secret stuff" list.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

73. How much more of this shit do we have to swallow ?