FBI was reportedly looking for classified NUCLEAR WEAPONS documents in Donald Trump’s home
After Donald Trump spent three days making every false accusation against the FBI and DOJ that he could think of, even while refusing to produce his copy of the Mar-a-Lago search and seizure warrant, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced today that he was moving to have the warrant publicly unsealed. Even as we wait for the results of tomorrow’s court hearing, one detail has hit the newswires – and it’s ugly beyond words.
According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post this evening, when the Feds entered Mar-a-Lago, they were looking for “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons.” That’s right, NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Even setting aside the illegality of taking these documents for any purpose, there can’t possibly be an above board explanation for why Trump would have taken them. This isn’t personal correspondence with foreign leaders that he had a soft spot for. This is, well, nuclear weapons intel.
You’d only steal these kinds of documents in order to sell them to the highest bidder, right? What other explanation could there even be? If Trump grabbed a bunch of random boxes of classified documents on his way out of office just to be a jackass, and didn’t realize he’d taken nuclear weapons intel, he’d surely have just returned it once the Feds informed him of the situation, right? There goes any argument that he didn’t know what he’d taken.
Stealing classified information about nuclear weapons, on its own, would be enough to put Donald Trump in prison for the rest of his natural life. His refusal to return the documents proves that it was indeed theft. And that’s before getting to the matter of whether or not Trump might have been trying to sell them.
No wonder Trump’s legal team has been vaguely suggesting that the FBI planted documents in Trump’s home just so it could “seize” them. That’s probably the only argument Trump can make at this point.
Interestingly enough, the Washington Post is reporting that its sources are declining to say whether or not the nuclear documents in question were found at Mar-a-Lago. If the documents weren’t there, Trump will surely argue that he never had them to begin with. But keep in mind that the DOJ reportedly had the cooperation of multiple unnamed people involved in the scandal, meaning they have testimony about what Trump knew and/or said about the classified documents.
There is also the question of who leaked this news, and why. It’s impossible to imagine that Trump’s side would have leaked this, given how damning it is. So it almost certainly had to come from the DOJ, which is usually tight as a drum. Perhaps the DOJ preemptively leaked this before Trump could try to release some dishonestly altered version of the warrant that makes him look like a victim of overreach.
