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Donald Trump and Secret Documents( UPDATE II)

 NOTE:  Conrad Black was pardoned by then President Donald Trump, as they say:  "one finds all kinds of qualities to someone who does that"

A week ago the FBI raided Trump's Florida residence for missing documents, I thought look at that they are doing an over the "Over the top Hilary Clinton thing" that will eventually help Trump to get re-elected in 2024.  BTW I am not a fan of Trump, to me and many many others, the raid looked like over-reach by a government agency.   My thought was "on the side of the GOP" they just got election ammunitions.  

Then Monday the Attorney General said he would make the search warrant public...OK, that's different, maybe the DOJ realized they screwed up and that this would reveal the FBI's anti-Trump bias.  On Tuesday it emerged that the FBI had, on a number of occasions, asked "privately" for the specific documents it found in Florida, Not good for Trump -- this was not a fishing expedition, the FBI was looking for specific documents, and found them all!  Also on Tuesday Trump demonstrated not only that he has a big mouth, but is completely unaware of reality.  Finally the "Coup de Grace" on Friday when the right-wing blogosphere (you know those who support Trump unconditionally) shut the hell up.  Total radio silence from Trump's biggest supporters.  You know that something is very rotten!

What the FBI revealed on Wednesday about the two independent searches:  (a)  the 11 documents recovered last Friday and (b) the information in the 15 boxes that were taken in January.  Some of the documents taken by the FBI in January were signal intercepts about Saudi Arabia, and that one document taken last Friday was classified: TOP Secret/SCI.  I didn't know this but these two types of documents are covered by very different laws and sanctions.  First, signal intelligence is the kind of "need to know" stuff that is handled very carefully (like in the movies carefully) and the second is even worse...Top Secret/SCI is the kind of information that is kept in a locked boxed is signed in and out, with witness signatures.  You don't get Top Secret/SCI for ordinary stuff, it's very serious information that has national implications, plus it's the kind of information that the President CANNOT make "un-secret".  It's not a paperwork thing it's just not in his purviews!

Why this is relevant is how this information could be used by Trump.  Now Trump is all about the money after the election he created a PAC that raised 250 million to investigate election irregularities and so far little of that money has been used for that instead Trump has made all kinds of payments to the unlikeliest people (his wife's dressmaker and Steve Bannon).  However, it has been implied that these documents could be used by Trump to ensure that the flow of cash from certain parties continues.  The story I read is that the signal stuff was about MBS/Saudi Arabia. 

Will Trump go to prison for this? No.  Will he be investigated for this over the next three years? Yes absolutely.  This is why the right-wing Trunmposephere has stopped talking about this, they know its a nomination killer because ANY opponent will be able to say, "Mr. Trump, in 2018 you reinforced the secret documents laws after you found the behaviour of Mrs. Clinton criminal, you talked about it and you did the exact thing you said was criminal".  There was a key to Trump's political death, it was the willingness of the DOJ to go public, it means they had the goods, and they had even more than they hoped to obtain.  When they reviewed all the data from their January "raids" they knew some documents were missing (e.g. Top Secret/SCI) and they obviously had a source in Florida who had seen the document, and talked to the FBI.

I could be wrong, but if I was Desantis, I would use this to my full advantage.  "Trump cannot be trusted with our national secrets he broke the law, give me money make me your next president"!  

UPDATE:  I've got a problem, Conrad Black believes that Trump will be President again, also that he was a great president!  I intensely dislike Conrad Black, but his political senses are unfortunately impeccable, especially with regards to our American cousins.  Maybe Teflon Trump will survive this latest salvo.  Personally, I think too many contenders for the job of President will be hard pressed not to use the latest scandal to sideline Trump, but I could be very wrong






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