Confirmed: Donald Trump took boxes of classified documents with him to enemy nations
Donald Trump criminally violated the Espionage Act just by having certain documents in his home, regardless of their classification or declassification status, and regardless of what he did or didn’t do with the documents. But even with Trump having already punched his ticket to prison no matter how this plays out, one big question is just what Trump was doing (or trying to do) with those documents.
Buried deep into a new Washington Post article is this sentence: “Boxes of documents even came with Trump on foreign travel, following him to hotel rooms around the world — including countries considered foreign adversaries of the United States.”
The article goes on to suggest that perhaps it was all just about Trump being highly disorganized and arbitrarily throwing classified documents into boxes while he was packing for overseas trips. But what if it wasn’t just that? This is Trump we’re talking about.
When this scandal first surfaced, the first thing most of us thought about was whether Trump might have been sharing or selling these documents to Putin or Kim Jong Un, for personal gain. And now we know that, at the least, Trump was indeed taking boxes of classified documents with him to enemy nations. The DOJ, the CIA, and others are surely working on trying to piece together just what Trump was really doing with all those classified documents when he took them into enemy territory. As expected, this just keeps getting uglier for Trump.
