Items with classified markings found at Trump storage unit in Florida

Old_Joe

Following are unedited excerpts from a current article in The Washington Post:

Lawyers for Donald Trump found at least two items marked classified after an outside team hired by Trump searched a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Fla., used by the former president, according to people familiar with the matter.

Those items were immediately turned over to the FBI, according to those people, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

The search was one of at least three searches for classified materials conducted by an outside team at Trump properties in recent weeks, after Trump’s legal team was pressed by a federal judge to attest that it had fully complied with a May grand jury subpoena to turn over all materials bearing classified markings, according to people familiar with the matter.

There has been a lengthy and fierce battle between Trump’s attorneys and the Justice Department in a Washington federal court in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. Much of the legal wrangling remains under seal by a federal judge, but people familiar with the matter say the Justice Department has raised concerns about what prosecutors view as a long-standing failure to fully comply with the May subpoena by Trump’s team.

Emails released by the General Services Administration, which assists former presidents during their transition to private life, show that the government agency helped rent the storage unit at a private facility in West Palm Beach on July 21, 2021. The unit was needed to store items that had been held at an office in Northern Virginia used by Trump staffers in the months just after he left office.

The emails show that the GSA and Trump staffers worked together to arrange to ship several pallets of boxes and other items weighing more than 3,000 pounds from Northern Virginia to the Florida storage unit in September 2021.

A person familiar with the matter said the storage unit had a mix of boxes, gifts, suits and clothes, among other things. “It was suits and swords and wrestling belts and all sorts of things,” this person said. “To my knowledge, he has never even been to that storage unit. I don’t think anyone in Trump World could tell you what’s in that storage unit.”

There was no cataloguing of what was put in the storage unit, Trump advisers said — just as there was no cataloguing of what classified documents were taken to a room underneath Mar-a-Lago.

Something new and fun every day!!

BenWP

And the rest of us are footing the bill for these searches by gangs-who-can't-see-straight. Wrestling belts??

Crash

seething here.

hank

knowledge = power.

The approach seems to have been to pile away as much potentially useful information as possible for later use in unsavory attempts at intimidation, blackmail, threat, revenge or reward. Dirt loves dirt.

Somewhat unrelated - How many of his business partners, top advisors or other close associates have not been muddied by that relationship? How many haven’t lived to regret they ever knew the man?

Sven

knowledge = power.

These secret documents have collateral values, just as spies who sell them to US adversaries. That is not power but blackmailing the nation. The exact nature of these documents were not discussed in the public for fear of endangering the national security. Remember, there are still some missing from the last search.

Who are gatekeepers of these top secret documents in the White House? How did he manage to keep so much in an unsecured room in FL?