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Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds
Special counsel Jack Smith gathered evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump took many top secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests, and investigators considered this a likely motive for Trump concealing them at his Florida club after he left the White House, according to newly released case records.The special prosecutor also had evidence indicating that after leaving office Trump had shown a classified map to passengers on a private plane, including his future chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and took at least one document that was so secret that only six people had authority to review it, according to a memo reviewed by MS NOW and cited by the House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland.
Trump’s reason for taking hundreds of pages of classified documents when he left office in January 2021 — and then concealing them when the Justice Department subpoenaed him for their return in May 2022 — has been one of the larger mysteries of the case. FBI agents conducting an unannounced search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 discovered hundreds more pages of top secret records that Trump and his lawyers had failed to return to the government after claiming they had fully returned all classified materials.
Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds
The special counsel’s office found that Donald Trump held on to documents so secret that only six people could legally review them — and the team believed his reason for doing so was financial gain.
It makes me chuckle every time I hear Karoline or Pam speak in strident ways about the trump regime being the most transparent EVER! And they do it with straight faces. Remarkable. Usually in a twisted defense of the regime breaking the law. Because it breaks the law so often allow me to be specific. In regard to the Epstein File Transparency Act.
Honestly, I'm a bit confused about how records pertaining to trump's businesses would be considered classified.........unless he designated them as such. That would be a clever way of keeping his business dealings a secret. And explain why he wanted to take the records with him. I've never understood why he would blatantly break the law and then refuse to comply with a subpoena for the return of the docs he stole. This helps make sense of it.