Post by trueblue on Aug 15, 2022 18:39:46 GMT
It's been a wild week since the FBI's shocking raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound. First the Washington Post reported, on Thursday, that Trump had improperly taken nuclear-related documents to his Florida mansion, and then on Friday, we learned that the search warrant was executed under the Espionage Act, potentially deepening Trump's legal predicament. And of course, it was a week from hell for law enforcement, which contended with real and threatened violence from enraged MAGA supporters whose vengeful wrath Trump did nothing to mollify. The whole sordid affair only underscored the profound recklessness of ever trusting such a person with America's highest office and most sensitive security information.
We still do not, of course, know exactly what the FBI found. But on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that more than 11 sets of classified documents of various levels of secrecy were seized as well as other items including a copy of a clemency order for Trump consigliere Roger Stone. Even if Trump was not planning to sell or transfer nuclear secrets to the Saudis or otherwise monetize the information, the fact that this kind of information was just boxed up like old tax returns in a barely-secured country club storage room is literally unbelievable—of anyone else. Every functioning intelligence organization on the planet probably has a plant at Mar-a-Lago, which looks about as secure one of Trump's own walls on the Mexican border and is inhabited by a coterie of slipshod, grievance-obsessed crooks.
Trump is a living, breathing security hazard, whose opaque finances, history of bankruptcy and shady real estate deals, longstanding business ties with tyrannical regimes, and open fondness for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin make him vulnerable to any and all types of subversion.
Trump is a living, breathing security hazard, whose opaque finances, history of bankruptcy and shady real estate deals, longstanding business ties with tyrannical regimes, and open fondness for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin make him vulnerable to any and all types of subversion.