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Playingmantis

(637 posts)
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 08:05 PM Nov 2025

Truth about Trump and his thief of secret documents

Around 4 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2022, a team of FBI agents finished searching then-former President Donald Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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

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Truth about Trump and his thief of secret documents (Original Post) Playingmantis Nov 2025 OP
Looking forward to the book. yellow dahlia Nov 2025 #1
If it was anyone else they would be sitting in a Supermax prison for life right now. Irish_Dem Nov 2025 #2
The fact that he is not tells me everything I need to know about 'justice'. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Nov 2025 #3
And about Merrick the Fucking Meek Aviation Pro Nov 2025 #4
This was the case D_Master81 Nov 2025 #5
We shoulda f'g arrested him! We being Biden, Garland and our KPN Nov 2025 #6
He was anyone else. J_William_Ryan Nov 2025 #7
Exactly! In 1789 He Would've Been "Citizen Trump"! ColoringFool Nov 2025 #9
K&R UTUSN Nov 2025 #8

Irish_Dem

(81,242 posts)
2. If it was anyone else they would be sitting in a Supermax prison for life right now.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 08:26 PM
Nov 2025

In solitary confinement.

D_Master81

(2,584 posts)
5. This was the case
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 08:57 PM
Nov 2025

The charges that were brought against him while serious could be spun as politically motivated because the average person couldn’t relate to financial crimes. But this was the case that should’ve 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 wasn’t 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)
6. We shoulda f'g arrested him! We being Biden, Garland and our
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:19 PM
Nov 2025

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)
7. He was anyone else.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:28 PM
Nov 2025

Just another criminal and treasonous insurrectionist who should have been arrested and held in custody absent bond as a flight risk.

ColoringFool

(705 posts)
9. Exactly! In 1789 He Would've Been "Citizen Trump"!
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:04 PM
Nov 2025

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.

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