Looks like Trump DID steal classified documents:

[Kingofalldems]

Lock him up.

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[Nevilledog]

1. New York Times article

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Mueller, She Wrote
@MuellerSheWrote
BREAKING: In a letter to Congress, the National Archives has officially confirmed that boxes taken from the White House by the former president included CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY documents.
A series of disclosures have raised new questions about whether former President Donald J. Trump followed federal record-keeping laws or mishandled classified information after he left office.
nytimes.com
Material Recovered From Trump by Archives Included Classified Information
In a letter to Congress, the National Archives confirmed that boxes taken from the White House by the former president included classified national security documents.
12:41 PM · Feb 18, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/politics/material-recovered-from-trump-by-archives-included-classified-information.html

No paywall
https://archive.fo/tN8Mq

[Kingofalldems]

2. He needs to be in Federal Prison.

[malaise]

15. THIS

Otherwise it’s all farce

[monkeyman1]

16. Get the federal charges on the stove cooking !! espionage might be a good thing !

[SheltieLover]

18. Absofuckingloutely!

Were the documents on the way to Russia?

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. Without question

[niyad]

59. I favour Abu Ghraib.

[Blue Owl]

3. Lock that hulking boob right the fuck up!

[Iwasthere]

4. This will be normalized

I know that sounds crazy, but so much has been normalized. Somehow they'll find a way. Lock the sob up already!!

[L. Coyote]

68. #FailedCoupGuy is already on it:

Link to tweet

[Diraven]

71. They will just say he declassified it

Even though he didn't go through the normal process they will argue he had that authority while he was still president

[louis-t]

77. He already tried to say that.

"You're declassified" does not work.

[orleans]

5. trump was GONNA declassify them

but he just didn't get around to it


so now he'll take it to the supreme court and thomas will rule it's not too late and trump can still declassify the docs--especially the ones that mention ginni thomas!


trump will have a pay-per-view as he declassifies each document he ever saw while simultaneously dj-ing in his pajamas in the midst of some moron's wedding party at (night)marealogo

[gratuitous]

8. Or he'll just claim he DID declassify the documents

And it will naturally be someone else's fault that the paperwork declassifying the documents hasn't been caught up yet.

[meadowlander]

37. He'll blame the moving company, run by Democrats of course,

and the 35% of the country that treated us to three years of "buttery mails" will lap it up.

[Timewas]

6. Seems

To me there is a whole lot of finger pointing accusations and head scratching but so far not a lot more.

[2naSalit]

7. These are the things he had...

Deemed classified but shouldn't have been. The only reason they were classified was because they are evidence of criminal activity. Think the issues Lt. Col. Vindman described regarding classified info.

Either way, they are evidence of criminal activity.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Worth a lot of black market cash

Bet we'll not be told exactly what went missing, or it peters out to a cover story because they won't want to admit it.

[Ocelot II]

12. He probably gave the really good classified stuff to Putin a long time ago.

[SheltieLover]

19. Yup!

[slightlv]

66. A thousand times, I agree with you

and it really scares me to imagine what Putin knows about our National Security right now. Is this why he's playing this type of wargame with Ukraine? How much does he know about our troop strength, deployments, readiness, hardware (including tanks, etc.), cybertracking and cyberhacking. Has he figured out a tactical plan to exploit any weaknesses we might have? As many months as Trump has been out of office, those NSC documents could have been among the first Putin might have seen. He's had plenty of time to come up with a tactical plan. And that's right up his alley.

Heck, Trump could have given him all the info on our satellites and who knows what. Notice that one group of papers that are missing are from the "meeting" he had with the Russians where the American reporters, translators, etc., were thrown out and only the Russians were allowed to be in the room.

And then there's the way he looked after the Helsinki meeting... and again, no paperwork, no translations, no notes, etc..

For these alone he should be in prison asap and interrogated until he gives up the information on all of this.

[Lonestarblue]

73. I've wondered whether the people briefing Trump in national security meetings skipped a lot.

After the first few briefings, they would have realized that he didn’t understand anything but big charts with two or three items on them. After Helsinki, they would have recognized that Trump was in Putin’s pocket. Why give top-secret information to a man who would simply share it with an enemy? They could have given him some small stuff to keep him happy. That’s my hope anyway.

[world wide wally]

10. Just fucking hang him already.

[C Moon]

14. Agreed.

[Boomerproud]

30. Nothing will happen.

nt

[ultralite001]

11. So many questions... so little time...

Are these documents the RTumpster took hoping to cover his sizeable backside???

Or are these documents with information the RTumpster hoped to leverage...

Classified documents, foreign or domestic???

Regarding RTump cronies, or his growing enemies list???

Regarding RTump properties, or other investments/interests???

Nothing the RTumpster does is unintentional...

[C Moon]

13. Probably allowed viewing for the right price.

That’s how he works.

[Cha]

31. Of course.. Anything for

a Crooked Buck for TFCG.

You cannot make this Shit UP!

[Mr. Ected]

17. Just watch the media wait until Trump bloviates about this before making it headline news

So they can package the accusation with the unresponsive response and leave a meh feeling with everyone watching.

"It's just politics".

[SheltieLover]

21. But her emails...

[Cha]

32. The US ***** media

is an Enemy of America.

[C Moon]

48. I'm finding (in my area) the local networks report better news than the big dogs.

[Mr. Ected]

51. With Sinclair media infiltrating local news around the country

Don't be surprised if you won't be able to rely on that in the future either.

[Cha]

61. TY.. I've read that before here..

We knew who the Greedy Fascist Monsters are.

[Lunabell]

20. Well, at least he didn't use a private email server.

I mean, seriously? These people are deranged!!

[gab13by13]

35. They did use private email servers,

[Lunabell]

60. What!

Omg, after the shit they pulled over HRC? Deplorable is too good a term for them.

[txwhitedove]

22. Everything tRump touches dies, because it's all turned into a for profit gig: Parks,

endangered species, voters trust, classified documents, people......

[lagomorph777]

24. LOCK HIM UP!

[Chainfire]

25. It is OK

Trump lives under a different set of rules. He is not subject to the same justice as the rest of the country. I just wonder what the government would have done to me, when I was serving in the Navy, if they discovered that I took classified documents home with me.

[sop]

64. Reality Winner got five years in jail for leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference

in the 2016 election. Chelsea Manning got 35 years (her sentence was commuted by Obama after serving 7 years) for leaking sensitive documents to WikiLeaks.

[not a texan]

26. He stole them to sell them

Fat Donny stole those to sell them to Putin. Out of office he has no value to the Russians, with secret documents he has a bit of leverage. He is broke or going broke with no prospects of keeping his lifestyle. Has he ever earned a legal dime in his life?

[mushroomhunter]

57. seems reasonable

[Cha]

27. I didn't know there was any

question about it.

Rt TY!

[quakerboy]

28. consulted and will do?

Nothing, I assume.

[KS Toronado]

29. I'm betting the Classified Information he took

was related to his or Putin's shenanigans of wrong doings.

[Kingofalldems]

34. Yep.

[Generic Brad]

78. Ah - proof they stole the 2016 election?

That could explain why he has been hyperventilating about the "Russia hoax" for the past week.

[Emile]

33. Is he under arrest yet?

[gab13by13]

40. The National Archives referred the matter to DOJ.

65 days ago the select committee gave a criminal referral to DOJ for Mark Meadows.
37 days ago the Michigan AG gave a criminal referral to the Feds re: the fake electors.

Add this referral to the list. The National Archives should have done the investigation itself.

The main reason Trump took and destroyed documents was to protect himself from being indicted, making money from the classified info is secondary.

There is more classified info either out there or destroyed that has not been turned over yet. I know, lots of time, we can wait for Trump's lawyers to go over the documents.

So someone is pouring gas all over a building, so what, plenty of time, we can wait until he lights the match.

[Emile]

42. So the DOJ have this now, along with Meadows and the fake electors.

I'm sure the DOJ will jump right on this.

[Duppers]

63. Zactly. "The DOJ will jump right on it."

As I said last week, Garland is either too timid or intimidated. His is inaction is most troubling.

[oldsoftie]

74. None of us knows what Garland is doing. Things take time.

We've all grown tired of the wait. But most of us also don't know how the law progresses at the Federal level

[BadGimp]

36. but...

[Botany]

38. Let me guess what those documents covered.

Trump and Russia. Lock him up now.

A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, “President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations” to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, “Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party.” Then, in late 2019, Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, “conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden’s family.” Throughout the 2020 election, agents “connected to the Russian Federal Security Service,” FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote “Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.”

Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

[gademocrat7]

39. He is a treasonous bastard.

[Kid Berwyn]

41. He needs to get locked up forever.

Traitors don’t need second chances.

[Farmer-Rick]

43. We don't know what he didn't return.

You gotta wonder what Trump still has hidden at Mary-go-loco.

So, how much of it did he copy already? Yeah, it's illegal to copy classified documents but it's illegal to even have it at Mary-go-loco.

Then how much of it did he send to Putin already? I mean he knew they were coming to confiscate it. He probably just took a picture of all of it and, sold it then, sent it electronically to his pal shorty Putin.

So, now we know what secrets Putin knows. Putin has to act quickly on the secrets Trump provided before America changes it, recalls people or otherwise makes the info obsolete. I wonder if Putin's threat against the Ukraine has something to do with those secrets.

[PurgedVoter]

44. There are several possibilities.

The documents could be memorabilia. Probably not.
The documents could be stuff he didn't want Democrats to know. Likely.
The documents could be stuff he could sell to the highest bidder. Likely.
The documents could be stuff that will be worth a fortune in a few years. Possible.
The documents could be useful for blackmail. Very likely.
The documents could be stuff he could trade Putin for to get a Trump hotel in Moscow. My second best guess.
It could be plans, names of agents, locations of money caches, technical information, mineral surveys or salacious details he wants to have read to him at bed time.

I am sure that there are a lot of other possibilities, it might even be stuff he could pull out at the last minute to effect an election before it is gone through carefully and shown to not mean what he said it meant.

Considering how he doubled down and bet on a lot of things that didn't pan out, the odds are good that he has the wrong boxes or they were not as good a set of secrets as he hoped they would be. It might just be the collected nonsense he has proving he was spied on by Hillary while he was in the White house.

My best guess is that it is all compromat. The Republican party is way to loyal to this bastard for there not to be a good collection of compromat somewhere.

[budkin]

45. FAKE NEWS! BEST PRESIDENT OF OUR LIFETIME SENT BY GOD! MAGA

[SleeplessinSoCal]

46. Somebody inform Sean & Tucker.

They are going to be so......

disinterested.

[Kingofalldems]

79. Not a peep from them so far.

[Jilly_in_VA]

47. Why would you ever think he didn't?

I just always assume he's guilty of whatever.

[Jimvanhise]

49. ANYONE ELSE WOULD BE ARRESTED

When classified documents are removed without authorization it is usually assumed it is because they are going to be offered for sale to America's enemies. Why hasn't Trump been arrested? People have got to jail for ten years or more from stealing classified documents.

[Kablooie]

50. Theyd have to prove criminal intent to convict.

Trump will always have his excuses.
He didn't know about the documents.
Some one else collected them for him.
He's shocked, shocked.

No. It's Trump. Nothing will come of this. It will be just one more criminal scandal that will fade away into the background noise.

[RobinA]

52. But, But, But...

her e-mails!

[YoshidaYui]

53. Do Eeet!

Lock him up!

[bringthePaine]

54. should read "Russian ass-hat steals classified documents, commits treasonous espionage"

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

55. The buck stops THERE, or THERE, or THERE or HILLARY, yes HILLARY...

had some evil lizard-person sneak those CLASSIFIED and TOP SECRET papers into my bigly, bestest house with so many of the most beautiful gilded rooms that I can't find where I hid the rest of them. I have so many toilets - probably the most lovely toilets in the world - that I can't keep flushing them fast enough. It takes 10 flushes each to get the paper down. It is criminal that Biden ruined American toilets. Shameful and probably illegal.

/snarlk/ for anyone who can't tell.

[stage left]

56. K&R

What does it take to get this traitorous scum arrested?

[3825-87867]

58. No, not the "Buck Stops Here"

it's an f'n deer crossing!

[Catherine Vincent]

62. "Trump, himself, didn't bring the boxes to Mara Largo!"

Said from a Trump cultist.

[moniss]

65. Think

of how many he already sold.

[Captain Zero]

72. See my #70 post below. That's just one way to do it

nt

[live love laugh]

67. It comes to light just as he's being squeezed in NY.

[BootinUp]

69. Take a ghost, to be a republican that acknowledges

[Captain Zero]

70. Steganography transfer if I was a betting man. Melania's auctions?

All those classified files the National Archives just got back?
They had over a year to insert them into images with steganography.

Melania could be auctioning off pictures with embedded documents in the pixels.

[3825-87867]

75. Not only that

but some may be surprised at the number of "embeds" in simple pictures on just about any social media.

Used to be a good (German) program 10-15 years ago called Masker that did a great job embedding items in pictures or other media til TPTB got wind of them.

Once the picture had way too much data, it aroused suspicion in some searches. So those who did encryption found a way to break the data into many smaller bits, sequentially name them and allow you to DL a number of different pictures from different sites then decrypt and reassemble the data.

Of course, today, google and bing and Meta have programs that can recognize this encryption and stop the transfer...most times!

There was an old joke about two chemists, Smith and Jones(!) brought into the CEOs office. He told Smith he wanted an acid made that wsa so strong it would eat through anything. Then he told Jones to find a container to hold it.

Someone will always find a way around anything.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

76. His bro Pooty would pay a lot for those.