Washington post just reported..

[Demovictory9]

Link to tweet

[Claustrum]

1. My hunch that the government found out from catching TFG or company about these document

while spying on foreign nationals, like how Flynn got caught, is more and more likely.

[wnylib]

20. Agree. I have been thinking this, too.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. What in the hell was he doing with this stuff, especially overseas? More and more I think that

he was selling this stuff to our adversaries. He's so greedy, so vain that he was seeking any attention despite what it took to get any respect or attention paid to him. Well, now he's going to have all of the attention now, being that he's the most single worse case of espionage ever in the history of our Country. I only hope that perhaps, perhaps that some of the idiots surrounding him kept some of the stuff away from him. God I only hope so. If any of our informants were killed as a result of his traitorous actions, he should pay w/ the highest price too.

Traitor.

[global1]

15. I Got To Think Many Of Our Allies That We Share Intelligence With Are Pretty Pissed Off.....

and worried about what Tr**p may have given up.

Does Tr**p have a price on his head because of this?

[wnylib]

22. A price on his head? Possibly. He sure has

created enough enemies.

Our allies might want to deal with him. Also, if he can't deliver on some foreign promises now that he has been outed, some of his customers, or potential customers, might want to see him "go through some things."

OTOH, there is a risk of making him into a martyr for his followers in the US and abroad.

[childfreebychoice]

45. Yrs ago, bush 2 renditioned "enemy combatants," to Syria and Egypt cus they

Had the "best torturers,"...I wouldn't be adverse to sending sending him to either country

[HipChick]

32. Imagine if this had happened in another country....

and compromised the country like this...

He would not be out and about walking around

America has got to be a laughing stock right now..

[triron]

51. Perhaps you are right. Certainly Trump has gotten way too much deference.

[luvtheGWN]

75. No, we're not laughing.

We're crying. The bastard has endangered us all.

[Bucky]

93. I don't think even our worst enemies would put out a contract on an ex US President

I won't say they wouldn't fuck with him somehow, but an outright hit is too naked for world politics.

It'd be interesting if, since Trump is largely a function of Russian election meddling, other pro-Western countries were to start taking clandestine steps to ensure future Trumplets don't achieve the Republican nomination. Our unreliability as an ally would certainly justify Germany or France or South Korea protecting their interests by ensuring a sane & loyal politician ends up in the general election. If you were Poland or Rumania or Israel or Sweden, wouldn't you be nervous about Trump's remaining political viability event after he got busted trying to end democracy at Putin's behest?

[Evolve Dammit]

27. I concur. Others know about it and pressure needs to be applied to compel them to come forward.

[Sneederbunk]

3. More heads than just the orange one are going to roll.

[2naSalit]

4. ...

Like a bookmobile of national security secrets for lease or purchase.

[underpants]

10. 📔

[childfreebychoice]

46. Hear, hear. Nt

[crickets]

12. Bingo. nt

[spanone]

5. K&R

[sop]

6. Wow. That is a stunning revelation.

The one thing Trump's defenders have yet to satisfactorily explain is what Donald Trump was doing with all the top secret documents at his golf resort in the first place. How will they rationalize this?

[patricia92243]

69. "He was going to put them in his presidential library" per my family republican.

[underpants]

7. Now now, let's not russia to judgement

[rubbersole]

11. Funny!

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Indeed. That would be Putin the cart before the horse.

[underpants]

14. (Applause)

[speak easy]

54. I've Red the news. He is Stalin for time. Don't Lenin get away with it.

Would be more than I can Bear.

[VWolf]

68. Ok, I dare you to add Khrushchev to the mix LOL n/t

[speak easy]

72. His Khrushchev dim under the bus.

[VWolf]

76. A fine effort :)

[speak easy]

73. give up

[lastlib]

84. I want him to take a lo-o-o-ong Krushchev a short pier..

Underpants should be czar-y for starting this.

[calimary]

79. LudwigPastorius for the WIN!!!

[msfiddlestix]

19. ....

[cab67]

29. New nickname for tfg/

Orange Crussia

[halobeam]

33. lol Good one!

[meadowlander]

57. Sorry he maybe a...

[Ms. Toad]

8. This came out yesterday. I clicked on the "just reported" link thinking there was some new horror.

[niyad]

9. This was actually reported several days ago, and extensively covered here. But

needs repeating for greatest visibility.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. But ... I missed it so I thank the OP. . . .nt

[niyad]

17. That is why I put in the second sentence.

[Demovictory9]

52. I missed it and most Americans probably missed it

[ultralite001]

18. With all things RTump...

Follow the money...

If the RTumpster is selling out America, there are receipts...

The evidence is out there -- somewhere...

That is all...

[wnylib]

25. Or, as Nancy Pelosi said,

With Trump, all roads lead to Russia.

[gldstwmn]

21. And yet he walks among us a free man. Why?

[BlackSkimmer]

23. And he will still.

I expect nothing to change.

[EmmaLee E]

35. You are right

[whathehell]

42. I don't think so..

Knee jerk pessimism is just lazy b.s.

[iemanja]

39. Because he was President at the time

and had legal access to those records.

[mjvpi]

24. It makes you hope that there is a Deep State. Career Grownups who ......

….. from day one put country ahead of Trump and knew not to show him stuff. Or better yet, treated him as a Russian asset and let him feed bullshit to Putin.

Who’s going to play DA Willis in the movie of a trump Going Down?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Inside Trump's war on the National Archives

Law do not apply to TFG. TFG is above all laws and if TFG wants something, he will take/steal it

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/trump-archives-records-war/

Trump’s disdain and disregard for the presidential record-keeping system he was legally bound to adhere to is well-documented. And while advisers repeatedly warned him about needing to follow the Presidential Records Act early in his presidency, his chaotic handling of the documents prevailed.......

“Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him,” explained Stephanie Grisham, a former senior White House staffer. “Usually the body man would have brought them upstairs for Trump or someone from the outer-Oval at the end of the day. They would get handed off to the residence and just disappear.”

Boxes of documents even came with Trump on foreign travel, following him to hotel rooms around the world — including countries considered foreign adversaries of the United States.

“There was no rhyme or reason — it was classified documents on top of newspapers on top of papers people printed out of things they wanted him to read. The boxes were never organized,” Grisham said. “He’d want to get work done on long trips so he’d just rummage through the boxes. That was our filing system.”

Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in refusing to turn over documents, at times suggesting that the records are his and should not be given back to the Archives.

[Martin68]

28. So Trump was a "Traveling Salesman?"

[70sEraVet]

49. That came to my mind, too!

[lpbk2713]

30. Shopping trips.

He was sporting around in AF-1 looking for the best deals he could get on US secrets.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Katinfl]

34. WTF??????

Was everyone just asleep on the job? Why is this all just coming out now? This cover-up has been going on for so long and so many people involved, I doubt we will ever get any definitive answers. I truly hope I am dead wrong.

[slightlv]

38. I'm wondering if they had any "fake"

classified documents in there that could use to entrap Trump. Know what I mean? If it turned up in use in Russia or China or North Korea or somewhere, it would be an automatic trace-back to Trump. But I don't know if these guys do those kinds of setups. Seems like it'd be an easy enough kind of thing to do, tho...

[childfreebychoice]

47. Have been wondering same. Nt

[Doodley]

36. If anyone else had done this, they would already be behind bars. I am sick of this

hate-filled monster getting away with his crimes and his continued gaslighting that is still tearing our nation apart.

[DSandra]

80. Trump rides to the fullest extent, rich white Republican male privilege

Look at the stuff that Nixon, Reagan, and George W Bush got away with. Terrible examples to future candidates.

[iemanja]

37. While he was President

This isn’t about the documents seized during the search.

Relying on twitter rumor for facts easily verified by reading the post yields misinformation.

[Skittles]

61. is that normal?

a president carrying boxes of documents with him on foreign travel?

[iemanja]

78. Not sure

Probably not. But it's not as bad as if he were doing it with documents from Mar-a-Lago illegally in his possession, which is what the majority of people responding to this thread think it is. The tweet is deliberately misleading.

[Skittles]

86. the man never did any real work

the ONLY reason he would have docs on him would be for grifting purposes

and I disagree, IT *IS* AS BAD

[kcr]

87. How is it "not as bad?"

[iemanja]

88. Not illegal.

[kcr]

89. Not illegal, if that is true, does not equal not as bad

It doesn't matter when he sold the secrets in terms of how damaging they are. At any rate he stole them, so whether or not he began selling them before his presidency ended doesn't change anything.

[iemanja]

90. WaPo says he carried documents

not that he sold them. If he did, obviously that is illegal.

[kcr]

91. Right

But the mere fact he carried them around with him to other countries very much implies he's doing something with them he shouldn't. That is the whole point. It's possible he stopped doing that when he left office, but then why did he take the documents with him?

[Skittles]

96. THANK YOU

the man never did any real work, his job is and has always been GRIFTER

[LuckyCharms]

95. Skittles, I can't imagine any situation where that would be normal.

It sounds like some of those documents were at the highest possible classification.

Only a very few select people are even allowed to lay their eyes on them, let alone travel to another country with them.

Sounds like a lot of those documents should have been immediately returned to a SCIF upon being viewed by Trump.

The reason they were not probably is because there are several people in collaboration with him concerning whatever he did with these documents.

[slightlv]

40. Color me another one who's not only sick of it,

but royally p'o'd about it, too. I did my time not only in the service, but also as DoD when I do out of the Air Force. 20 years DoD. I only had a Secret Clearance for most of my time, but I did go up to Top at one point. Regardless, it rankles that I lived my life on the up-and-up and worried each time I took that E-Quip that my memory had failed me on something or they'd dig something up I'd completely blown off as unimportant in my life, or they'd take exception to the fact I was Pagan.

I just updated my resume a little bit ago. I'm thinking it might not be bad to work from home doing some clerical work or web work, if I can find something legit. Ran into one of the old security briefings. Wondered as I scanned it if Trump had to sit through that briefing and if he stayed off his phone long enough to listen to any of it! Just mad me madder than hops that he's slapped all of us in the face who did our time honorably in service to our country and our fellow Americans. I'd really like to have the pleasure of slapping him back!

[Rebl2]

41. Why is

this guy not sitting in a jail cell.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. For this thread

Link to tweet

[hadEnuf]

44. A spy and traitor that delivers! Literally!

The entire MAGAT / Republican party needs to be completely disabled or destroyed and the traitors punished to the full extent of the law. No second guessing. No hand wringing. No remorse. Put them out of business.

It's obvious that Trump thinks WE ARE ALL suckers and losers, especially his moron supporters, and he doesn't give a rat's ass about this country whatsoever. He is clearly evil and insane and a clear and present danger to national security.

[DSandra]

81. What happens when evil is not stopped...

[hadEnuf]

82. Trump is quickly becoming a cornered rat and he and his fanatics have nothing to lose

and everything to gain if they win out. They will go for broke.

We need to knock them down and make sure they stay down. These are potentially very dangerous times.

[bonniebgood]

48. There are probably more documents six feet under his first wife

on his golf course.

[MFM008]

66. Yes it took

12 men to carry that "coffin"....
Right.

[Fullduplexxx]

50. JFC GARLAND WTF

[dwayneb]

55. Can't find this article or report

Is there a link? Did a Google search on this, no luck so far.

[dwayneb]

56. Found it

Looks like it is here, but behind a paywall for me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/trump-archives-records-war/

[ecstatic]

58. Excuse me, but why the fuck was he allowed to go anywhere or do anything

while all the documents were God knows where? Does anyone think President Obama would have gotten away with any of this?

[LiberalFighter]

59. He couldn't have done this all on his own.

They need to go down.

If any involve with allies should be sent there so they can suffer.

[Rhiannon12866]

60. Twitter replies:

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[Demovictory9]

62. Drudge had the orange jumpsuit pic as headline yesterday

[RANDYWILDMAN]

63. It could not get worse and then....It does

Can this man go to jail in my lifetime ? asking for a friend

[RocRizzo55]

64. Hmm... What happened

To the last people who sold secrets to our "enemies?" I think it was in 1951 or maybe 53. Shouldn't tfg suffer similar consequences?

[The Third Doctor]

65. When

Trump, believed Putin over pur own intelligence people. In front of the entire planet that was a red sign.

[patricia92243]

67. If this is true, he should be convicted of treason.

[patricia92243]

70. Is there any way to know if past presidents have taken papers with them?

I know Trump's answer will be that this is standard procedure.

[secondwind]

74. TRAITOR TRUMP

[Hotler]

77. Oh great! This will add another 21-months to the investigation. ..... nt

[wryter2000]

83. Abysmal, but is it illegal?

That's just a question. I honestly don't know.

[Emile]

85. We need to check all his properties for more documents.

[Bucky]

92. The full ugly quote from the article.

Keep in mind this was his behavior while he was president. I still don't know if he's left the country in the last 20 months since exiting the White House

“Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him,” explained Stephanie Grisham, a former senior White House staffer. “Usually the body man would have brought them upstairs for Trump or someone from the outer-Oval at the end of the day. They would get handed off to the residence and just disappear.”

Boxes of documents even came with Trump on foreign travel, following him to hotel rooms around the world — including countries considered foreign adversaries of the United States.

“There was no rhyme or reason — it was classified documents on top of newspapers on top of papers people printed out of things they wanted him to read. The boxes were never organized,” Grisham said. “He’d want to get work done on long trips so he’d just rummage through the boxes. That was our filing system.”

[Bucky]

94. One more quote: "NARA officials believe that there might still be more records missing"

Strap in, B's & G's, this rodeo ain't over

But the Archive’s work may not yet be done: Some NARA officials believe that there might still be more records missing, according to a person familiar with the matter.