It's either a big leak or fake news. It's from the Wall Street Journal.FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Monday removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret and meant to be only available in special government facilities, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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The list includes references to one set of documents marked as “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” an abbreviation that refers to top-secret/sensitive compartmented information. It also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents. The list didn’t provide any more details about the substance of the documents.
More details, tending toward the salacious
The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took around 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Mr. Trump’s ally Roger Stone, a list of items removed from the property shows. Also included in the list was information about the “President of France,” according to the three-page list. The list is contained in a seven-page document that also includes the warrant to search the premises which was granted by a federal magistrate judge in Florida.
Appears Trump stole quite a bit more sensitive material than they knew if 11 more boxes were found in their search, compared the everything they took in the initial visit months ago. Really wish they would also release the affidavit of good cause so we know a bit more of what they are alleging in addition to mishandling of defense material and classified information.
I do believe we're entering the "find out" phase of all this.
And I am so fucking here for it.
Trump issued an official statement about the classified documents, which I quote in its entirety below.
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
08/12/22
President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-nnj9fypacy0
Certain People are interpreting it as an admission that some of the classified documents retained by Trump were about nuclear secrets.
So we have gone from "ZOMG! Trump had nuclear secrets on him and gave them to Putin!" to "A bunch of random documents that were supposedly classified."
Trump's lawyers have already said (just as they have been saying for months now) that Trump declassified the documents while he was still president. So as per usual this is a non-story and as per usual the Democrats will pretend it's the biggest threat to our democracy ever.