• Lock Him Up

    From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 21 09:00:34 2023
    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

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  • From George Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Wed Jun 21 13:10:31 2023
    On 6/21/2023 11:00 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:

    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    Huff Post... Bwah Hah Hah!
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  • From sticks@21:1/5 to George Anthony on Wed Jun 21 13:22:36 2023
    On 6/21/2023 1:10 PM, George Anthony wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 11:00 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:

    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's
    own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox
    News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal
    case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old
    comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he
    accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive
    materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    Huff Post... Bwah Hah Hah!

    Conveniently omit the fact that trump actually was the POTUS and had the
    power to declassify documents. The witch didn't, and neither did Biden
    when he was a Senator or vice president. To say nothing of the the
    actual Presidential Records Act and the 5 years it gives as well as his
    powers to assert what was his personal documents. It's such a fucking
    joke the way they've twisted the law for something that actually has no criminal punishments. It's a civil matter and this would only be done
    by a corrupt DOJ to protect the swamp and their party of choice. It
    should bother all Americans the DOJ has become a tool of one political
    party, but it won't. Among every other institution the left has
    destroyed in America, you can now add the justice system.

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  • From George Anthony@21:1/5 to sticks on Wed Jun 21 19:38:02 2023
    On 6/21/2023 1:22 PM, sticks wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 1:10 PM, George Anthony wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 11:00 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:

    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's
    own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox
    News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal
    case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old
    comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he
    accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive
    materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    Huff Post... Bwah Hah Hah!

    Conveniently omit the fact that trump actually was the POTUS and had the power to declassify documents. The witch didn't, and neither did Biden
    when he was a Senator or vice president.  To say nothing of the the
    actual Presidential Records Act and the 5 years it gives as well as his powers to assert what was his personal documents.  It's such a fucking
    joke the way they've twisted the law for something that actually has no criminal punishments.  It's a civil matter and this would only be done
    by a corrupt DOJ to protect the swamp and their party of choice.  It
    should bother all Americans the DOJ has become a tool of one political
    party, but it won't.  Among every other institution the left has
    destroyed in America, you can now add the justice system.

    Everything these NAGA democrats touch turns to shit. Lying is their
    modus operandi. It was good to see that NAGA democrat, Adam Shithead get censured today. It doesn't mean much but at least there is some fight
    left in these republicans.

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  • From sticks@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Wed Jun 21 20:54:40 2023
    On 6/21/2023 8:37 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 9:00:36 AM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    "There's an FBI agent who hoarded classified documents like Trump — and she's going to prison"

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-similar-case/

    When exactly was this FBI agent the President of the United States?

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  • From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Wed Jun 21 18:37:03 2023
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 9:00:36 AM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    "There's an FBI agent who hoarded classified documents like Trump — and she's going to prison"

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-similar-case/

    TB

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  • From filmbydon@gmail.com@21:1/5 to sticks on Wed Jun 21 21:06:02 2023
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 6:54:43 PM UTC-7, sticks wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 8:37 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 9:00:36 AM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    "There's an FBI agent who hoarded classified documents like Trump — and she's going to prison"

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-similar-case/
    When exactly was this FBI agent the President of the United States?

    Trump wasn't President when he was hoarding his Confidential Information at his resort either.....

    Judge Judy Jr.

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  • From robert caprel@21:1/5 to sticks on Thu Jun 22 06:40:29 2023
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 11:22:39 AM UTC-7, sticks wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 1:10 PM, George Anthony wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 11:00 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:

    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's
    own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox
    News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal
    case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old
    comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he
    accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive
    materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    Huff Post... Bwah Hah Hah!
    Conveniently omit the fact that trump actually was the POTUS and had the power to declassify documents. The witch didn't, and neither did Biden
    when he was a Senator or vice president. To say nothing of the the
    actual Presidential Records Act and the 5 years it gives as well as his powers to assert what was his personal documents. It's such a fucking
    joke the way they've twisted the law for something that actually has no criminal punishments. It's a civil matter and this would only be done
    by a corrupt DOJ to protect the swamp and their party of choice. It
    should bother all Americans the DOJ has become a tool of one political party, but it won't. Among every other institution the left has
    destroyed in America, you can now add the justice system.

    And he can declassify them telepathically it’s just absolutely amazing what halve wits can do nowadays, you really should have more of the cool aid it’s delicious

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  • From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to robert caprel on Thu Jun 22 09:55:31 2023
    On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 6:40:31 AM UTC-7, robert caprel wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 11:22:39 AM UTC-7, sticks wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 1:10 PM, George Anthony wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 11:00 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:

    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News >>
    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's >> own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox
    News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal
    case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old
    comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he
    accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive
    materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    Huff Post... Bwah Hah Hah!
    Conveniently omit the fact that trump actually was the POTUS and had the power to declassify documents. The witch didn't, and neither did Biden when he was a Senator or vice president. To say nothing of the the
    actual Presidential Records Act and the 5 years it gives as well as his powers to assert what was his personal documents. It's such a fucking
    joke the way they've twisted the law for something that actually has no criminal punishments. It's a civil matter and this would only be done
    by a corrupt DOJ to protect the swamp and their party of choice. It
    should bother all Americans the DOJ has become a tool of one political party, but it won't. Among every other institution the left has
    destroyed in America, you can now add the justice system.
    And he can declassify them telepathically it’s just absolutely amazing what halve wits can do nowadays, you really should have more of the cool aid it’s delicious

    Hey, it's a beautiful mind at work.

    "'Beautiful mind paper boxes': Trump aides reportedly mocked his attachment to classified records"

    "Donald Trump's employees frequently referred to his boxes of documents as his "Beautiful Mind" material because of the former president's attachments to documents that boosted his own sense of security, according to the New York Times.

    Those close to Trump referenced "The Beautiful Mind," a movie that features a schizophrenic character who plasters newspaper clippings to the wall, because of Trump's known attachment to carrying the keepsakes wherever he went, according to reporters
    Maggie Haberman, Alan Feuer and Michael S. Schmidt.

    They write that Trump's obsession with the presidential materials is at the heart of the federal indictment he now faces.

    "The phrase had a specific connotation. The aides employed it to capture a type of organized chaos that Mr. Trump insisted on, the collection and transportation of a blizzard of newspapers and official documents that he kept close and that seemed to give
    him a sense of security," the Times story says. "One former White House official, who was granted anonymity to describe the situation, said that while the materials were disorganized, Mr. Trump would notice if somebody had rifled through them or they
    were not arranged in a particular way. It was, the person said, how 'his mind worked.'""

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-beautiful-mind-boxes/

    There's a more complete article about #45' paper fetish here:

    "Trump's "Beautiful Mind" Papers"

    "The DOJ's indictment accuses Trump of illegally and willfully secreting away national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act; engaging in conspiracy to obstruct justice; engaging in a scheme to conceal; illegally withholding documents;
    corruptly concealing records; making false statements and representations; and concealing documents in a federal investigation.

    The latter six of the felony counts were also brought against Trump's aide, former White House valet and "body man," Waltine Nauta, who typically goes by Walt, and who Trump, according to the DOJ, directed to move boxes of classified documents around his
    private country club residence, Mar-a-Lago, for purposes of hiding them from Trump's lawyers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (which raided Mar-a-Lago in August to retrieve them) and the federal grand jury that has now indicted him.

    The details of the DOJ indictment paint an objectively strange, Howard Hughes-like picture of a former president extremely intent on keeping hundreds of classified documents physically close to him and even bringing them with him on his travels. The
    documents were kept in publicly accessible and largely unsecured areas, just footsteps away from more than 150 Mar-a-Lago social events from the time Trump left office in January 2021 to the FBI's raid in August 2022, exposing them to "tens of thousands
    of guests," according to the indictment.

    Trump's classified documents fixation was not just well known to his aides, but also his family, who seemed to find his emotional attachment to the boxes – and need to even bring them on trips – cumbersome and irritating. In one exchange highlighted
    by the DOJ, an unnamed Trump family member (thought by some to be Ivanka, Trump's daughter, or Melania, his wife), wrote to Nauta warning him that Trump should not plan to fly with his boxes, as they would crowd out other items on the plane. An excerpt: "
    We will NOT have a room for them. Plane will be full with luggage. Thank you!" It appears Trump flew with his boxes, anyway.

    When Trump was told he would need to subject his boxes to a search for classified documents in May 2022, Trump showed evident signs of distress. According to the DOJ, he told his lawyers, "I don't want anybody looking, I don't want anybody looking
    through my boxes. I really don't. I don't want you looking through my boxes." (Whatever your political affiliation, I highly recommend reading the indictment in its entirety, as it is hard to do full justice to it in one article.)

    In another exchange in April 2021, Trump employees debated whether to move Trump's boxes from Mar-a-Lago's "business center" to the "lake room," before one of them remembered, "there is still a little room in the shower." The second employee agreed that
    other items could be moved to make room for Trump's classified documents, stating, "Yes, anything that's not the 'beautiful mind' paper boxes can definitely go to storage." This was a reference to the film, "A Beautiful Mind," about a Nobel Prize-winning
    mathematician who fought mental illness and featured one particular scene with an office drowning in papers and news clippings climbing the walls.

    Trump's classified documents stored near an industrial-grade copier.

    Central to the DOJ indictment is a sequence of events where, after agreeing to allow one of his lawyers search his boxes for any classified documents, Trump rearranges his calendar so he can be present for the search and, in the days leading up to it
    between May 2022 and June 2022, directs Nauta to bring 64 boxes to his residence from an unsecured storage room, leaving just 30 boxes to be searched by his lawyer – who still finds dozens of classified documents. Afterward, Trump meets the lawyer in
    the Mar-a-Lago Club dining room, asking, "Did you find anything?...Is it bad? Good?"

    Just days later, after having another lawyer certify that all Trump's classified documents had been found and returned to the U.S. government (which turned out to not be true, according to the DOJ), Trump also met DOJ and FBI personnel at the Mar-a-Lago
    Club, telling them he was "an open book."

    The files Trump had access to while he was president included the most sensitive classified documents and national defense information the U.S. government has in its possession, the DOJ says, comprising information from the nation's intelligence agencies
    and the U.S. Department of Defense. "The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential
    vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack," it said.

    There have been characterizations of Trump as "obsessed" and a "hoarder," which is a psychological disorder found in the DSM-5, marked by "persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value." Only in this case,
    the value of Trump's hundreds of classified documents labeled, variously, "confidential," "secret" and "top secret," is not just inordinately high, but utterly invaluable."

    https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/trumps-beautiful-mind-papers

    It might have been more accurate, and kind, to suggest we lock him up in an insane asylum. I expect that this is what Mar-a-Loco will become.

    TB

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  • From George Anthony@21:1/5 to film...@gmail.com on Thu Jun 22 12:32:22 2023
    On 6/21/2023 11:06 PM, film...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 6:54:43 PM UTC-7, sticks wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 8:37 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 9:00:36 AM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote: >>>> "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News

    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    "There's an FBI agent who hoarded classified documents like Trump — and she's going to prison"

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-similar-case/
    When exactly was this FBI agent the President of the United States?

    Trump wasn't President when he was hoarding his Confidential Information at his resort either.....

    Judge Judy Jr.

    So he went back to DC and collected all those documents after he was
    cheated out of office?
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  • From kmiller@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Sun Jun 25 06:43:29 2023
    On 6/22/2023 9:55 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 6:40:31 AM UTC-7, robert caprel wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 11:22:39 AM UTC-7, sticks wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 1:10 PM, George Anthony wrote:
    On 6/21/2023 11:00 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:

    "Republican Group Taunts Trump With His Own Damning Words In Fox News >>>>>
    The Republican Accountability Project is using the former president's >>>>> own words against him in a $1 million ad campaign."

    "A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump will run a new ad on Fox >>>>> News and CNN this week in which an unexpected figure makes the legal >>>>> case against the former president: Trump himself.

    The new ad from the Republican Accountability Project highlights old >>>>> comments from Trump on the importance of classified documents as he
    accused 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive >>>>> materials."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-group-trumps-own-words_n_6492aaf0e4b06123d830f36b

    "NEW AD: It's time to hold Trump to Trump's own standard."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdNJOwZslk

    TB

    Huff Post... Bwah Hah Hah!
    Conveniently omit the fact that trump actually was the POTUS and had the >>> power to declassify documents. The witch didn't, and neither did Biden
    when he was a Senator or vice president. To say nothing of the the
    actual Presidential Records Act and the 5 years it gives as well as his
    powers to assert what was his personal documents. It's such a fucking
    joke the way they've twisted the law for something that actually has no
    criminal punishments. It's a civil matter and this would only be done
    by a corrupt DOJ to protect the swamp and their party of choice. It
    should bother all Americans the DOJ has become a tool of one political
    party, but it won't. Among every other institution the left has
    destroyed in America, you can now add the justice system.
    And he can declassify them telepathically it’s just absolutely amazing what halve wits can do nowadays, you really should have more of the cool aid it’s delicious

    Hey, it's a beautiful mind at work.

    "'Beautiful mind paper boxes': Trump aides reportedly mocked his attachment to classified records"

    "Donald Trump's employees frequently referred to his boxes of documents as his "Beautiful Mind" material because of the former president's attachments to documents that boosted his own sense of security, according to the New York Times.

    Those close to Trump referenced "The Beautiful Mind," a movie that features a schizophrenic character who plasters newspaper clippings to the wall, because of Trump's known attachment to carrying the keepsakes wherever he went, according to reporters
    Maggie Haberman, Alan Feuer and Michael S. Schmidt.

    They write that Trump's obsession with the presidential materials is at the heart of the federal indictment he now faces.

    "The phrase had a specific connotation. The aides employed it to capture a type of organized chaos that Mr. Trump insisted on, the collection and transportation of a blizzard of newspapers and official documents that he kept close and that seemed to
    give him a sense of security," the Times story says. "One former White House official, who was granted anonymity to describe the situation, said that while the materials were disorganized, Mr. Trump would notice if somebody had rifled through them or
    they were not arranged in a particular way. It was, the person said, how 'his mind worked.'""

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-beautiful-mind-boxes/

    There's a more complete article about #45' paper fetish here:

    "Trump's "Beautiful Mind" Papers"

    "The DOJ's indictment accuses Trump of illegally and willfully secreting away national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act; engaging in conspiracy to obstruct justice; engaging in a scheme to conceal; illegally withholding documents;
    corruptly concealing records; making false statements and representations; and concealing documents in a federal investigation.

    The latter six of the felony counts were also brought against Trump's aide, former White House valet and "body man," Waltine Nauta, who typically goes by Walt, and who Trump, according to the DOJ, directed to move boxes of classified documents around
    his private country club residence, Mar-a-Lago, for purposes of hiding them from Trump's lawyers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (which raided Mar-a-Lago in August to retrieve them) and the federal grand jury that has now indicted him.

    The details of the DOJ indictment paint an objectively strange, Howard Hughes-like picture of a former president extremely intent on keeping hundreds of classified documents physically close to him and even bringing them with him on his travels. The
    documents were kept in publicly accessible and largely unsecured areas, just footsteps away from more than 150 Mar-a-Lago social events from the time Trump left office in January 2021 to the FBI's raid in August 2022, exposing them to "tens of thousands
    of guests," according to the indictment.

    Trump's classified documents fixation was not just well known to his aides, but also his family, who seemed to find his emotional attachment to the boxes – and need to even bring them on trips – cumbersome and irritating. In one exchange
    highlighted by the DOJ, an unnamed Trump family member (thought by some to be Ivanka, Trump's daughter, or Melania, his wife), wrote to Nauta warning him that Trump should not plan to fly with his boxes, as they would crowd out other items on the plane.
    An excerpt: "We will NOT have a room for them. Plane will be full with luggage. Thank you!" It appears Trump flew with his boxes, anyway.

    When Trump was told he would need to subject his boxes to a search for classified documents in May 2022, Trump showed evident signs of distress. According to the DOJ, he told his lawyers, "I don't want anybody looking, I don't want anybody looking
    through my boxes. I really don't. I don't want you looking through my boxes." (Whatever your political affiliation, I highly recommend reading the indictment in its entirety, as it is hard to do full justice to it in one article.)

    In another exchange in April 2021, Trump employees debated whether to move Trump's boxes from Mar-a-Lago's "business center" to the "lake room," before one of them remembered, "there is still a little room in the shower." The second employee agreed
    that other items could be moved to make room for Trump's classified documents, stating, "Yes, anything that's not the 'beautiful mind' paper boxes can definitely go to storage." This was a reference to the film, "A Beautiful Mind," about a Nobel Prize-
    winning mathematician who fought mental illness and featured one particular scene with an office drowning in papers and news clippings climbing the walls.

    Trump's classified documents stored near an industrial-grade copier.

    Central to the DOJ indictment is a sequence of events where, after agreeing to allow one of his lawyers search his boxes for any classified documents, Trump rearranges his calendar so he can be present for the search and, in the days leading up to it
    between May 2022 and June 2022, directs Nauta to bring 64 boxes to his residence from an unsecured storage room, leaving just 30 boxes to be searched by his lawyer – who still finds dozens of classified documents. Afterward, Trump meets the lawyer in
    the Mar-a-Lago Club dining room, asking, "Did you find anything?...Is it bad? Good?"

    Just days later, after having another lawyer certify that all Trump's classified documents had been found and returned to the U.S. government (which turned out to not be true, according to the DOJ), Trump also met DOJ and FBI personnel at the Mar-a-
    Lago Club, telling them he was "an open book."

    The files Trump had access to while he was president included the most sensitive classified documents and national defense information the U.S. government has in its possession, the DOJ says, comprising information from the nation's intelligence
    agencies and the U.S. Department of Defense. "The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential
    vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack," it said.

    There have been characterizations of Trump as "obsessed" and a "hoarder," which is a psychological disorder found in the DSM-5, marked by "persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value." Only in this
    case, the value of Trump's hundreds of classified documents labeled, variously, "confidential," "secret" and "top secret," is not just inordinately high, but utterly invaluable."

    https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/trumps-beautiful-mind-papers

    It might have been more accurate, and kind, to suggest we lock him up in an insane asylum. I expect that this is what Mar-a-Loco will become.

    TB






    I think he was disillusioned after failing to build "THE WALL", or
    getting Mexico to pay for it, so he built a wall of classified documents
    to keep the illegal aliens he hired, out of his bathroom and off his stage.

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