ultimately produces 15 boxes of documents. The National Archives identify what documents they know are missing at that time.
National Archives files a complaint with the DoJ when they review the 15 boxes as many documents are still missing. Again, more documents are specifically listed as missing.
More efforts are then made by the DoJ to get the documents.
DoJ interviews Trump staff about the documents.
The DoJ convenes a Grand Jury to examine the criminal complaint over the missing documents.
DoJ feels Trump is not cooperating and dragging it out.
A subpoena from the Grand Jury produces more classified documents in early June which the FBI/DoJ takes away at that time. DoJ orders the basement room with documents to be locked (classified docs unprotected since Jan 2021).
An insider tips off the FBI on the location of more documents in Trump's safe, bedroom and basement.
That is what preceded the search warrant assisted by the insider tip that produced 12 more boxes of documents on Monday.
There is a very good chance that some of the documents the National Archives originally identified as missing in 2021 were contained within the 12 boxes they collected Monday.
And yet Trump maintains he was 'cooperating' all along and the FBI 'planted' the missing documents the National Archive identified in 2021?
I doubt Trump is going to get as much mileage out of this BS as he did with the big lie.
The DoJ can shut Trump down on this pretty close to whenever they want. They already have the National Archives who filed the complaint and a Grand Jury behind them - who issued the subpoena and backed the search warrant. They collected 12 more boxes of evidence on Monday. They appear to have an eyewitness insider. All they have to do now is follow the money and dot the i's and cross the t's on an indictment.
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