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Around 4 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2022, a team of FBI agents finished searching then-former President Donald Trumps social club in a surprise raid and drove off in vans loaded with boxes that few expected would carry such extraordinarily sensitive cargo.
In a hastily convened conference call that evening, Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen listened as his investigators described the hundreds of pages of top-secret records they found, some containing gravely serious material. Several detailed covert government operations and U.S. spying powers could get American operatives killed if the information fell into the wrong hands. Instead of the documents being kept under lock and key in a government safe, agents found them spilling out of boxes in Trumps personal office, his residence and even a bathroom shower.
Olsen turned to his top Justice Department expert on the mishandling of classified records, Julie Edelstein, to ask what they should do next. She delivered a startling assessment.
If it was anybody else, we would arrest him tomorrow, Edelstein said.
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You really need to read the full story which will be told tomorrow in a new book
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/trump-arrest-classified-documents-probe-maralago-rcna241155
yellow dahlia
(5,866 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,242 posts)In solitary confinement.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,137 posts)Aviation Pro
(15,574 posts)Fucking milquetoast.
D_Master81
(2,584 posts)The charges that were brought against him while serious could be spun as politically motivated because the average person couldnt relate to financial crimes. But this was the case that shouldve been brought against him because it was so obvious that he was guilty of a serious crime. I mean he had top secret documents in boxes in his bathroom, was directing people to hide them and wasnt returning them when he was ordered to. Not to mention some of the docs were nuclear and of the highest level of secrecy. Slam dunk case if there ever was 1 and we just dropped it because he was elected by an idiot of a nation.
KPN
(17,376 posts)party. Had we done that, we would absolutely be in no way worse off than we are today other than being the GOAT in going high! J6 in itself should have been enough to realize the full extent of the threat to democracy, the clear danger that faced us.
J_William_Ryan
(3,495 posts)Just another criminal and treasonous insurrectionist who should have been arrested and held in custody absent bond as a flight risk.
ColoringFool
(705 posts)Too bad in 2022 he WAS "Citizen Trump" but regarded nonetheless as "President Trump"!
There was one photo of his bathroom in Florida (even calling it "Mar-a-Lago" connotes, erroneously, some type of important status) with boxes of Top Secret documents that put the activities of Robert Hanssen to shame.
Treason in plain sight. Russia. The Fake and Illegal Electors. The phone calls to Georgia USA and Ukraine. The Capitol Building.
And yet.....Mueller and Garland.
Please no re-hash of "parameters" or anything else, frankly, for no rules or regs or rationales can---you should pardon the expression---trump the exposure of and conviction for TREASON.