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WaPo Bombshell: Trump Took Boxes of Material on Trips Around the World for 'No Reason'

Jason Miciak 13-16 minutes 8/27/2022

There are a couple of salient facts that many people do not know regarding the problem with Trump keeping Top-Secret/SCI files. They paint a very sinister picture.

First, these boxes at issue had been kept in the residence of the White House for some time prior to Trump moving back down to Mar-a-Lago. Indeed, there was enough concern about these very boxes that there were discussions weeks prior to the move with White House Counsel Pat Cipollone about getting these boxes back. Just reading through the lines one can tell that others (Archivists and the intelligence community) were acutely aware of the fact that Trump kept these records in the residence, didn’t like it, and were already worried about his plans for them.

From Saturday’s Washington Post:

The Archives battle to secure records from Trump began while he was still president, according to records reviewed by The Post. Gary M. Stern, the agency’s top lawyer, began asking the former president’s attorneys to return two dozen boxes in the residency of the White House before he left. In an email Stern wrote to others, Trump’s counsel, Pat Cipollone, agreed with him. But Trump did not return them.

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Again, they don’t come right out and say it, but the above paragraph just screams that there were many people aware of the very “odd” fact that Trump liked to keep top secret compartmentalized information in the residence and were acutely aware of the danger that he might take them.

Then the Washington Post buried the lede a bit. This paragraph is simply shocking in light of all we’ve read to this point. According to Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s director of communications at the time:

Boxes of documents even came with Trump on foreign travel, following him to hotel rooms around the world — including countries considered foreign adversaries of the United States.

“There was no rhyme or reason — it was classified documents on top of newspapers on top of papers people printed out of things they wanted him to read. The boxes were never organized,” Grisham said. “He’d want to get work done on long trips so he’d just rummage through the boxes. That was our filing system.”

Grisham’s assertion is not corroborated, but it is at least consistent with Trump keeping documents in the White House residence and stuff mixed with unclassified material.

Presidents who want to get work done on international trips have entire staff bringing the work with them. It is very organized. Everyone knows what is where. Schedules are created in 5-10 minute increments, and the work is done. Boxes don’t get hauled around from hotel to hotel, especially in adversarial countries where the government just assumes that the hotel rooms are not secure. His behavior is beyond reckless, though not necessarily criminal.

How that paragraph can appear halfway down a page… it is because it’s the Washington Post. They won’t speculate or analyze obvious “problems” with the dry news that they’re reporting. We do not know any more than what is printed above but what is printed above just screams that Trump has been recklessly taking classified material all over the world for reasons known only to him, perhaps to share things he finds “cool” or much worse. At the very least, it’s so reckless that the assertions demand further investigation, and just “Because he was the president” isn’t good enough anymore.

One suspects that if we knew the entire truth, it would open the guts of an otherwise unthinkable security breach.

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jmiciak@yahoo.com, @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman