Trump Reportedly Pitched Trading Classified Files for Documents Proving Russia Probe was a Hoax

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reportedly-pitched-trading-classified-files-for-documents-proving-russia-probe-was-a-hoax



Instead of returning the classified materials he’d taken to Mar-a-Lago from the White House, Donald Trump allegedly wanted to trade them for documents showing the FBI investigated his 2016 campaign ties to Russia, according to reporting from The New York Times.

For more than a year, National Archives officials hounded the former president’s aides and attorneys to return the boxes. Trump insisted they contained nothing important, some just had dirty laundry. But after more pushing from his team, Trump pitched a deal: give the government back its files in exchange for proof that the FBI’s Russia investigation was a “hoax,” the Times reported.

His aides knew the idea would be a “non-starter” and never acted on it. After one of Trump’s attorneys warned him he could face serious consequences if he did not return the classified documents, the former president, who kept insisting the “boxes were ‘mine,’” began going through them last December, the Times said.

The news is the latest in the ongoing saga, which has sparked a Justice Department investigation into Trump's handling of the classified material. Federal investigators still believe he is withholding government documents, the Times reported earlier this week.

Read it at The New York Times

[FalloutShelter]

1. Smells like bullshit to me.

Just the latest excuse for stealing and lying. "I just needed the papers to swap for proof the FBI was wiretapping me in the Russia hoax."
Pardon my French, but horse shit!

Is this what the lawyer with the 3m retainer came up with?

[NJCher]

17. No way

That’s the only guy on the team with any sense. And, of course, because he was paid with donations, his value to trump is zero. Three million is what he’s already been paid.

[purr-rat beauty]

2. I can't see how this is not an admission of commiting a crime

[dchill]

3. Well, exactly. Will the DOJ see it that way?

I honestly don't know.

[Silent3]

13. Well, gosh, what was Trump's state of mind?

Did he really know that using stolen government documents as leverage to strong-arm the government into giving him fake evidence for attacking political rivals was a crime?

That SOOOO hard to prove!

[Demobrat]

5. So, let me get this straight.

He wanted to swap stolen classified materials for documents that exist only in his mind.

Is that about it?

The article is firewalled, so maybe I’m missing something.

[Grasswire2]

6. I am gifting a link to the article so you can read it.

I subscribe, and I'm happy to do this any time for anyone here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/trump-documents-lawyers.html?unlocked_article_code=JoHXbv9PM-IdOmYoWgeuYbbJuyZtuUccqjglWbfkjAykJKOvzcAG-kpTtLQg3P6vLl55e3zkdYIpjNWAYqUcoMmYemFj3Zf4AJ5AyOzK4Z5keUzN0o2bUIMwFI4lbV8XELDD4MQiE9jnfirx9wsrgjEcHosfllbZEWESr272AMBeaU3DkQ7WIOs_A7FN_eRSw-L_EK1Scw0QReLSLNGOad-7rMfS5Wzxvw0krKC-N6YQ2f6A8omShUq8LfXhQhktU9ihWuToI3ySsuFG4y834dTYmQ-n0XTtgepNrP2pmV72nHg2A1F0tDntoNHnj71TjFO5WKJGpA5_pyJ0OLZD9IgfCmtX&smid=share-url

[Demobrat]

7. Thanks!

[Grasswire2]

15. YW! nt

[Demobrat]

9. So...it seems documents do exist

which Trump just assumes, or wants to believe, say what he wants them to say.

Still nuttier than a fruitcake.

[niyad]

8. Stroke out already, you F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR**.

[aggiesal]

10. Pendejo45 wanted the Russian documents so he could burn them, ...

then nobody would be able to find out what really happened.
He's an idiot.

NARA would probably give him.copies.
Did mention Pendejo45 is an idiot?

[Beetwasher.]

11. Reading Between the Lines

There was a compartmentalized investigation he couldn’t get access to started by Obama DOJ. Good news.

[eShirl]

20. nice

I think you're on to something.

[liberal N proud]

12. What do you suppose he traded to Russia?

[kentuck]

14. Why is it so important for him to prove the Russian probe was a "hoax"??

What does he get out of that? Personal satisfaction?

Perhaps there is Russian information that he does not want anyone else to see?

[Grasswire2]

16. I want to know this: Were any NARA employees corrupted by his requests?

Can we still rely on NARA to keep our precious secrets safe?

He asked them to do unlawful things. That what a mob boss does, to bend the person to his will.

[BigmanPigman]

18. He looks like he is in agonizing pain...

Too bad pictures are deceiving. I will continue to hope for the worst for him.

[Martin68]

19. Blackmailing the United States of America? Good luck with that, you

piece of shit.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. Traitortrump was illegally in possession of Top Secret docs and walks free. Would you be free?

[lindysalsagal]

22. Having Russians in the oval office and refusing to keep note

Won't help him deflect collusion. It was the mobile oil refinery job in return for the Moscow Trump tower deal. What was the guy? Minuchin? Who was in and out at the start of his reign? Flynn was in on it, too.

[Irish_Dem]

24. So one of his reasons for stealing documents was to have leverage to get things he wanted.