When the mentally ill and seditious Malignant Fascist left the White House after his humiliating loss to former President Biden in 2020, he took with him boxes of material including highly classified documents that he stored at Mar-a-Lardo in such places as a bathroom and his private office. After refusing to return them, he was indicted. Unfortunately, due to the foot dragging timidity of then Attorney General Merrick Garland, the case was brought midway through Biden's term and was assigned to biased Judge Aileen Cannon, the MF's faithful appointee to the bench, who eventually killed the case.
Now, it's been disclosed that the stolen documents contained information that the MF considered important for his business. From MS Now reporters Carol Leonnig and Jacqueline Alemany:
"Special counsel Jack Smith gathered evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump took many top-secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests, and investigators considered this a likely motive for Trump concealing them at his Florida club after he left the White House, according to newly released case records. [snip]
Trump’s reason for taking hundreds of pages of classified documents when he left office in January 2021 — and then concealing them when the Justice Department subpoenaed him for their return in May 2022 — has been one of the larger mysteries of the case. FBI agents conducting an unannounced search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 discovered hundreds more pages of top-secret records that Trump and his lawyers had failed to return to the government after claiming they had fully returned all classified materials.
In a January 2023 progress memo reviewed by MS NOW, Smith’s office discussed the possible motive after the FBI discovered that Trump held onto many documents related to his businesses.
'Trump possessed classified documents pertinent to his business interests — establishing a motive for retaining them,' according to a January 2023 memo from Smith’s office tracking progress in their documents and election interference investigations. 'We must have those documents.'”
In a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Raskin insisted that Trump’s Justice Department has sought to cover up both the details of Trump’s 'hoarding' of classified government secrets and storage of them in his Mar-a-Lago club’s showers and closets that put national security at risk, and also the clues as to Trump’s motives for doing so."(our emphasis)
It should come as no surprise that the MF would use classified information to further his business interests, perhaps to the point of selling the information for a commercial advantage or just plain cash.
Should Dems retake the House (and hopefully the Senate) in November, this development needs to be pursued with the Department of Justice (for Trump) by Rep. Raskin's committee under threat of subpoena and obstruction of justice.
(photo: Trump's idea of a secure location. Justice Department via AP)
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