Now we know how Hitler took over Germany. Or how Putin keeps control of Russia. Or Bibi is still in power in Israel.
The indictment spells out Trump’s alleged scheme to move dozens of boxes containing sensitive government material after he was asked to turn them over.
“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,” the indictment reads.
The charges against Trump include conspiracy to obstruct justice, willful retention of national defense information and making false statements
You must think he's above the law
The indictment spells out Trump’s alleged scheme to move dozens of boxes containing sensitive government material after he was asked to turn them over.
Stop falsely accusing Biden when Trump has been caught red handed.
Trump’s aide was also charged Friday in the alleged scheme. Walt Nauta, a former military valet who worked at Mar-a-Lago following Trump’s presidency,
was seen on Mar-a-Lago surveillance video moving boxes from a storage room before and after a subpoena was issued.
This indictment is separate from another case in which state prosecutors in New York charged Trump with 30 felony counts related to a hush money payment made to a porn star before the 2016 election.
Listen to what Trump said.
“I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election,” he wrote on his Truth Social site.
That's right. He thought he was above the law too. And what does it matter how popular he was? Does that give him the right to break the law? What the **** was he doing with these documents? Selling them to spies? Sure seems like it.
Trump will sell anything. Even national secrets.
The former president said he had a standing order to automatically declassify anything removed from the Oval Office and that “everybody knew” he had taken boxes of documents with him to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
But prosecutors spent months obtaining evidence from employees at the club and Trump’s aides, as well as a
reported tape of him discussing a sensitive military document he indicated he knew was secret.
There are still several other investigations into Trump’s behavior that could pose even more legal peril, including federal and state investigations into his efforts to remain in power after his 2020 electoral loss to Joe Biden.
