Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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General John Kelly: "He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law."

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Can anyone come up with a reason for Trump's theft of these top secret documents?

 



Files seized at Mar-a-Lago include material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities 

Some of the documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them.


"Documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need-to-know basis, not just top-secret clearance. Some special-access programs can have as few as a couple dozen government personnel authorized to know of an operation’s existence. Records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key, almost always in a secure compartmented information facility, with a designated control officer to keep careful tabs on their location."





For a guy who didn't even like to read the PDB material when he was POTUS, why would Trump  steal these highly technical, highly secret documents? 


And what was he going to do with them?


7 comments:

Dave Miller said...

Shaw...

Perhaps internet troll -FJ can provide a clue. In one of his recent blog blasts here's what he asked...

"Trump can't even keep his OWN correspondence with Kim il? Wow."

And that about sums it all up.

Reporting has shown that Trump believes this stuff is his, not the American people's. And that while he has been told he is wrong about that, he seems functionally unable to back down. So here we are, with Trump defending the indefensible, both in the court of right wing public opinion and in legal settings.

The problem is he, like -FJ, is wrong.

But let me say this... this is what I want to believe, because the alternatives are far far worse.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dave M.

-FJ wrote: "Trump can't even keep his OWN correspondence with Kim il? Wow."

-FJ has been WRONG on almost everything during the Trump administration and the 2020 election. He was sure that the audits in Arizona and Wisconsin would prove Trump actually won those states. The audits did not.

He even claimed the story about the 10-year old child who was denied an abortion was fake news!

Trump's correspondence with Kim Jong Il belongs to the U.S., not Trump. He received it while he was IN OFFICE, not a private citizen.

What don't people understand about that?

Dave Miller said...

And now Trump has claimed he kept the documents to "Protect" them from Biden, the Deep State and other supposed nefarious folks...

skudrunner said...

I am happy to give a reason. He thought he could get away with it and everything belonged to him. That is what happens when you have a Mega Narcissists. Lock Him UP!!!

Sergeant Roc said...

I firmly believe there are Progressive judges that will send Republican voters to concentration camps to be killed.
All is needed is the direction by the Biden

Anonymous said...

If there are 80 Republican politicians, 370 members of law enforcement, and over 100 active-duty members of the U.S. military who are all members of the Oath Keepers, isn't THAT the definition of "Deep State?"

Dave Miller said...

Sgt Roc... are you off your meds? Belief is just that. A belief. Not a fact. Much like your comment.

BTW, what was your grade in English 101?