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Everything Must GO!
Throw it in a box — we’ll sort all it out later.
That was the directive during the last two weeks of the last administration — when the reality that they had LOST finally sunk in.
Failed court cases, failed coup, and now a failed Exit Plan — kind of par for the Trump course ...
Trump frantically packed up documents to take with him in the last days of his presidency after finally accepting he was leaving the White House, report says
www.yahoo.com — Aug 13, 2022
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Amid the chaos and the realization that every election challenge was failing, Trump began instructing aides to pack up documents he planned to take with him to Mar-a-Lago, according to an NBC News report published Saturday.
Two sources with knowledge of the situation told the outlet Trump's aides were hurriedly stuffing documents and other materials into banker boxes that were then shipped to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Palm Beach club and residence.
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"It was a chaotic exit," the source told NBC. "Everyone piled everything — staff, the White House movers — into the moving trucks. When they got to Mar-a-Lago, they piled everything there in this storage room, except for things like the first lady's clothes. Everything in a box went there."
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Now for the likely “real excuse” Trump had highly classified top secret documents at his Pay-to-Play Clubhouse:
“Donald Trump is not exactly a pro-active planner.”
‘It worried people all the time': How Trump’s handling of secret documents led to the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search
www.nbcnews.com — Aug 13, 2022
When it finally dawned on Donald Trump in the twilight of his presidency that he wouldn’t be living at the White House for another four years, he had a problem: He had barely packed and had to move out quickly.
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Trump’s style of handling White House documents has been described by people who worked for him as slapdash and ad hoc, contributing to the debacle he now faces. He was known to rip up records that aides would have to retrieve from trash cans or from the floor and tape back together, according to former aides and multiple reports.
“It worried people all the time,” John Bolton, one of Trump’s former national security advisers, recalled in an interview.
“Trump had a habit of grabbing intelligence documents,” said Bolton, who has been a sharp critic of the former president. “God knows what he did with it.”
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Now for the likely “real motive” why Trump had highly classified top secret documents at his Pay-to-Play Clubhouse:
“Donald Trump thought that he knew more about Intelligence than the Intel Community.”
Ex-White House chief of staff said Trump stashed records at Mar-a-Lago because 'he didn't believe in the classification system'
www.businessinsider.com — Aug 14, 2022
President Donald Trump's former chief of staff on Saturday said he took top secret documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida because he "didn't believe" in the White House classification system.
"His sense was that the people who are in the intel business are incompetent, and he knew better," John Kelly, told The Washington Post.
"He didn't believe in the classification system," he added.
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Perhaps this is “good news” of sorts. Perhaps it was just Trump’s own incompetence and delusions of czar-dom, that resulted in the Document-stash at the Donald Daca. And not a deliberate attempt to sell America’s nuclear secrets to the highest bidder.
Then again, he has had over 18 months to ponder this lucractive money-making opportunity. Who’s to say that those basement-transactions with foreign reps, did not take place — you know as “crimes of opportunity”?
Whatever the ‘market will bear’ … Whatever the ‘rubes will pay’ ... right, Donald? Just chalk it up to the Art of the Steal ...
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The fact that the Trump “Legal Team” stated in an affidavit in June that ALL the Documents had indeed been returned to the National Archives — doesn’t exactly leave us with a warm and fuzzy feeling. Especially given all the Boxes of Documents recovered in the August FBI warrant search.
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If it was initially a “honest mistake” — the frantic result of a pending eviction — why in the world are they still acting dishonestly, when interacting with the Justice Department? When signing those legally-binding affidavits? When riling-up the MAGA Mob again, from the ironically misnamed Truth Social?
Honest people simply don’t lie to the FBI and Justice Department — unless of course, they DO have something to hide.
If there is anything the fact-based world knows about the disgraced ex-president — it is Donald Trump ALWAYS has something ELSE to hide.
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