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Boxes to Bedminster could be like Coals to Newcastle: Trump just drags them around, and lies [1]

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Date: 2022-09-11

Box-a-Lago becomes Boxminster as Biglygate continues, waiting for the elevator shoe to drop. Would he be more of a MAGA patriot to keep his British Knighthood rejection letter.

"The Queen, she came to me with her little hat and the dogs--you know, she always had those dogs--and she said, 'Donald, you are the greatest American. Please, Sir, will you be my knight?' She had tears in her eyes and said, please Sir Donald. So I said yes, I'll knight for you."

Doubtless there is a NARA and NSC/ODNI master list of still missing classified documents yet to be revealed.

This has been the pattern of the story of Trump’s mishandling of presidential records from the start. In January, the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago. By February, NARA had already told DOJ about classified documents, according to a letter from the agency’s head to Representative Carolyn Maloney. Although a lawyer for Trump requested that NARA not disclose the contents of the boxes to the FBI, government lawyers were already a step ahead, pointing out that “there are important national security interests in the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community getting access to these materials … Some include the highest levels of classification, including Special Access Program (SAP) materials.”

Meanwhile, DOJ had concluded that the 15 boxes were not all of the documents Trump had improperly removed. In early May, prosecutors subpoenaed Trump to turn over documents. This was an important milestone in the investigation, because Trump has claimed that he would have been happy to hand over any documents: “They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes LONG ago. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK,” he wrote on his struggling website Truth Social.

In fact, they did ask—and with the force of law behind the request. A representative for Trump swore that the president’s aides had performed “a diligent search” of the boxes removed from the White House and produced all documents covered by the subpoena. The representative also said that all of the relevant documents had been stored in one particular room.

Neither of these claims was true. The Justice Department obtained evidence that suggested that Trump had not turned over all the documents, and that other ones were stored in other locations at Mar-a-Lago. Using that information, DOJ asked a judge to approve a search warrant, and on August 8, FBI agents arrived at the club and seized more documents, including some stored in desks in Trump’s office there.

Using the dry language of legal filings, DOJ’s filing yesterday effectively calls Trump’s aides a passel of bald-faced liars: “That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the ‘diligent search’ that the former President’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter.”

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x Why did Trump take boxes of classified documents on vacation?pic.twitter.com/ld6eWPQrTf 04#SaveOurDemocracy — Tomthunkit™ (@VippusaO) September 11, 2022

x WATCH: this video shows boxes of documents being loaded onto Trump’s private jet from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster — zoomed in and marked by @cwebbonline from a Daily Mail video posted the day of the flight. pic.twitter.com/eUxW1sFqLt — Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) September 11, 2022

The only part of this story that is confirmed is that Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who was dismissed by Mueller for texts with Lisa Page that put down Trump but was formerly a respected enough agent to be involved in the Hillary and Mueller investigation (undoubtedly a superior agent), posted a picture of what he says is Trump unloading a plane that had been flown from Palm Beach in Florida to Bedminster New Jersey. The other thing we can confirm is that Andrew Weissmann, the top Mueller deputy – who thus must have worked with Strzok on investigations, believes that the picture is significant.

Before anyone gets too over the top, Trump essentially “moves” from one club to another for the summer season. It wouldn’t be entirely unusual to bring “boxes” of things on which to work. Having said that, we know that certain boxes followed Trump from the White House residence down to Mar-a-Lago. At least in the past, Trump has brought documents that do not belong to him to be accessible. Would he do so again?

Another consideration is that there is that these pictures were taken long before the FBI’s search, but in that all-important period in May, in fact – just three days after the National Archives was demanding that materials be returned and they referred the matter to DOJ, which empaneled a grand jury. If Trump wanted to bring classified documents from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster, this would be as likely a means as any, and a critical time period, just after hearing that the National Archives wants the documents “in Mar-a-Lago”…

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x Better check Bedminster…



On May 6, NARA emails Trump to say material is missing and may be at MAL.https://t.co/XbEWvl9WdX



On May 9, Trump gets on a private plane from Palm Beach to Bedminster. On video, several boxes are seen loaded onto the plane. https://t.co/ZoiRY5bISx pic.twitter.com/JPd9BalcrH — Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) September 10, 2022

x I can't be the only one who remembers the distant past of 2 months ago when Trump claimed, "Nobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11."

Maybe Trump needed those boxes to finally get answers. https://t.co/397fxRyeXI — Clinton Freeman (@duboisist_sma) September 11, 2022

x Take a moment and imagine if after 9/11, Bin Laden were allowed to freely travel America, spewing lies in an effort to radicalize more people to commit violence in his name?! Well that is EXACTLY what Donald Trump has been doing since Jan 6. Time to Arrest Trump!! — (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) September 11, 2022

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