About all those documents: Donald Trump doesn't read...

[hay rick]

This from an article in the Atlantic in 2018:

...how little Donald Trump reads. While, like many of the tendencies described in Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, Trump’s indifference to the printed word has been apparent for some time, the depth and implications of Trump’s strong preference for oral communication over the written word demand closer examination.

“He didn’t process information in any conventional sense,” Wolff writes. “He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate.”

Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”

If Trump had no interest in reading the documents himself...

link to article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/

[LaMouffette]

1. . . . then he probably brought in the vile Jared Kuschner to go through all of them and determine

which documents would be most valuable to the Saudis, to the Russians, to China.

I heard on "Morning Joe" this morning that Benedict Donald was livid that he did not get a cut of the $2 billion that Jared got from the Saudis. So maybe when Jared came across documents of special interest to the Saudis he just pocketed them and took them personally to Prince Bonesaw on his whirlwind trip to Saudi Arabia shortly before the 2020 election. From a Vanity Fair article:

The paper’s Kate Kelly and David Kirkpatrick report that “shortly before the 2020 election,” Kushner unveiled a government-sponsored program dubbed the Abraham Fund, which the Trump administration said would raise $3 billion for projects around the Middle East, capitalizing on the Abraham Accords, the diplomatic agreements normalizing relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. As part of that endeavor, Kushner and then Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin “crisscrossed the Middle East in the final months of the administration on trips that included trying to raise money for the project.”

[link:https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-saudi-arabia|

[PatSeg]

3. Oh yes

I'm quite sure Jared made use of some of those classified documents. What else was he selling the Saudis for $2 billion? Who knows what else he did.

As for Trump, even if he doesn't read, he knew he had things of value in his midst. Being he has no attention span, he probably grabbed as many as he could to sort out at a later date.

[dutch777]

2. He also doesn't appreciate art or architecture. The collection is a status statement that is all.

Leveraging information was never his strong suit. Leveraging images of power and stature were.

[hay rick]

4. Chandeliers and classified documents in the bathroom.

I assume Trump didn't read or even skim 99% of the documents. If he wasn't personally interested in the information in the documents, I believe their value to him was as trophies and auction items.

[Duppers]

5. Most of his followers are semi-literate too.

I'm sure.