http://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/us/politics/trump-fbi-search.html
"The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers."
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"... Upstairs in the White House ***residence,*** there were, however, a few signs that Mr. Trump had finally realized his time was up. Papers he had accumulated in his last several months in office had been dropped into boxes, roughly two dozen of them, and not sent to the National Archives. Aides had even retrieved letters from Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, and given them to Mr. Trump in the final weeks, according to notes described to The New York Times. ...]
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***** [Trump and staff were told by WH Counsel that the papers had to go to NARA.] *****
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"Although the White House Counsel’s Office had told Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s last chief of staff, that the roughly two dozen boxes worth of material ****in the residence**** needed to be turned over to the archives, at least some of those boxes, including those with the Kim letters and some documents marked highly classified, were shipped to Florida. There they were stored at various points over the past 19 months in different locations inside Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s members-only club, home and office, according to several people briefed on the events. ..."
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***** [Trump and Meadows KNEW that there was a PROCESS by which to declassify documents that did not involve ESP or Magic Verbal Incantations.] *****
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"... In Mr. Trump’s last weeks in office, Mr. Meadows, with the president’s blessing, prodded federal law enforcement agencies to declassify a binder of Crossfire Hurricane materials that included unreleased information about the F.B.I.’s investigative steps and text messages between two former top F.B.I. officials, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who had sharply criticized Mr. Trump in their private communications during the 2016 election. The F.B.I. worried that releasing more information could compromise the bureau, according to people familiar with the debate. Mr. Meadows dismissed those arguments, saying that **Mr. Trump himself wanted the information declassified** [so why didn't Trump just wave his magic wand and do so?] and disseminated, they said. ..."
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"Just three days before Mr. Trump’s last day in office, the White House and the F.B.I. ****settled on a set of redactions,**** and Mr. Trump declassified the rest of the binder. Mr. Meadows intended to give the binder to at least one conservative journalist, according to multiple people familiar with his plan. But he reversed course after Justice Department officials pointed out that disseminating the messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page could run afoul of privacy law, opening officials up to suits. ..."
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How does ANYONE with the most minimal training to work in the WH ignore "Secret", "Top Secret", "SCI", "Return to Military Aide ..." stamped in bright colors on folders and files??? If those aides testify under oath that, "Trump told me to go to the Oval Office and bring him the Kim letters" and "Trump told me to leave the Secret folders in the boxes." will THAT satisfy you? ... ... Of course not.
Posted By: coeur-de-lion
Re: There are photos on the internet . . . .
yesterday that showed and described the chaos when Trump was moving out of the WH. ...