FBI raids Maralago (Trumps home)

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

Not exactly:

  • The National Archives said in February that it had “arranged for the transport of” 15 boxes of White House documents from Mar-A-Lago that should have been turned over to the Archives and never left Washington, D.C.—which included “classified national security information.”

  • Trump reportedly held on to the documents for months and only turned them over when he was threatened with legal action, multiple outlets report.

  • Trump’s removal of the documents could violate the Presidential Records Act, which requires documents to be preserved and turned over to the Archives, along with a federal statute prohibiting “willfully and unlawfully conceal[ing], remov[ing], mutilat[ing], obliterat[ing], or destroy[ing]” any government property.

  • The Archives reportedly asked the Department of Justice to investigate Trump taking the recovered documents to Mar-A-Lago in February and the agency was probing the matter by April, the Washington Post reported at the time, and a grand jury was convened in the case and issued subpoenas as of May.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/08/09/heres-what-to-know-about-trumps-document-controversy-that-led-to-mar-a-lago-raid/?sh=28d4f6f5b969

It seems he took them in February, as he was leaving the whitehouse. And it looks like he wasn't cooperating to get them back.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

Are these just the facts?:

  • The National Archives pressed Trump to send 15 boxes of documents from Mar-A-Lago, where they were produced as president. Those boxes made it to the White House and disappeared, disturbingly containing "classified national security information." It's unknown if bringing the boxes of documents to the White House fulfilled Trump's duty and liability of them. Bleachbit.
  • Before this, Trump hadn't moved the documents from Mar-A-Lago and the National Archive pressed him to do so.
  • If Trump were to remove something improperly....it could be supa bad.
  • A grand jury issued subpoenas in May to investigate how documents generated at Mar-A-Lago that went to the White House, where then lost.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Cool. Got a source for those, or did you just make them up now?

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

I just repeated what you and your source said, but sticking to just the facts.

It's basically just what you said stated in a less deceptive way, without forgone conclusions and gaslighting assumptions.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Ohh. Nuclear secrets it turns out. The first people executed for espionage in peace time in the US were moving nuclear secrets to the USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

I wonder who Trump was talking to that he refused to return the documents. He's quite the fan of Putin isn't he?

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

They simply said they were looking for classified documents, of which the most concerning would be nuclear secrets. The media spun that into the deceptive click-bait headline that "they were looking for stolen nuclear secrets."

It is pretty clear already that they did not find any, nor any classified material, nor anything very concerning.

They plan on releasing the entire warrant and list of taken items soon, thanks to the DOJ petition, as the DOJ is has been made to look like corrupt fools by the media spins (and their own unprecedented screw ups in the execution of this).

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

They simply said they were looking for classified documents, of which the most concerning would be nuclear secrets. The media spun that into the deceptive click-bait headline that "they were looking for stolen nuclear secrets."

The Washington Post cited people familiar with the investigation as saying nuclear weapons documents were thought to be in the trove the FBI was hunting in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

It is pretty clear already that they did not find any, nor any classified material, nor anything very concerning.

What? How can you possibly claim that that's "pretty clear"?

They plan on releasing the entire warrant and list of taken items soon, thanks to the DOJ petition, as the DOJ is has been made to look like corrupt fools by the media spins (and their own unprecedented screw ups in the execution of this).

Trump has the warrant and list of times taken. If it helps his case, he would have released it already. He hasn't. So it looks bad for him.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

The Washington Post cited unnamed people trying to exaggerate. I don't think we'll find anything about nuclear secrets in the warrant affidavit.

What? How can you possibly claim that that's "pretty clear"?

Because we already knew some about what was recovered. It was just lame stuff they already knew was there, when they visited in mid-July and looked at it. They told Trump to put a bigger padlock on it.

Trump has the warrant and list of times taken.

Trump had lobbied them to release the warrant. He backtracked on calling for the list of items to be released. I don't think he had or was permitted to release either without the court's approval, but neither are important and both are a misdirection, when you are familiar with these kinds of investigations.....

Only the affidavit for the warrant will have anything useful. The warrant its self will be vague and boring.

There will be two lists of items taken, the lame one given to Trump's attorney, after they snuck and did this with zero oversight, even hiding from the local police. That list will basically say "boxes of papers". It is reported that golf balls and a rain coat were also taken. There will be a usefully detailed list generated by the court days after the watergate-esk raid.

We have to remember this is just about getting old junk to the national archives for display and finishing sorting through boxes of papers to ensure no confidential stuff is left, which they knew was there and were okay with last month, when assessing its security.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Because we already knew some about what was recovered. It was just lame stuff they already knew was there, when they visited in mid-July and looked at it.

The receipt had top secret documents, and SCI top secret documents. SCI (Sensitive compartmented information) is not supposed to be moved from the SCI facility, nor discussed outside it.

The same document shows that the search warrant was executed on suspicion of espionage, in addition to other crimes.

They told Trump to put a bigger padlock on it.

No they told him to put a lock on it. That bicycle lock was what he put there. It was in an unlocked room for a year.

Trump had lobbied them to release the warrant.

Trump was the only one who could have released the warrant. He didn't need to lobby. He just needed to release it.

I don't think he had or was permitted to release either without the court's approval, but neither are important and both are a misdirection, when you are familiar with these kinds of investigations.....

It's released now, as you can see from my link. He can release both without court's approval. The FBI and DOJ are the ones that need the courts approval to release it.

That list will basically say "boxes of papers".

Yes. But it includes their security classification, and the top secret boxes are of grave concern. The fact that there are SCI documents there is beyond "grave concern".

It is reported that golf balls and a rain coat were also taken.

Those aren't on the receipt.

We have to remember this is just about getting old junk to the national archives

Nope. Top secret documents, including Sensitive compartmented information.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The receipt had top secret documents,

Hasn't that been corrected already to be "formerly" secret documents, which were declassified?

No they told him to put a lock on it.

Yes, they told him to secure it better, because they new there were boxers of documents not yet sifted through, likely with classified data. They were aware of it, okay with it, and instructed him to keep it there and further secure it.

We have to remember this is just about getting old junk to the national archives. We also have to remember that everyone knew and was okay with there being some possible classified documents here.

We have to remember that most of them were declassified and the media will pretend they were still classified. This is the opposite trick they used to minimize Hillary's much more serious issue (her's leaked to foreign governments, instead of collecting mold in a basement).

It is reported that golf balls and a rain coat were also taken.

Those aren't on the receipt.

Like I told you, the lame receipt just says a count of boxes.

Source about those findings: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/us/politics/trump-fbi-subpoena.html