Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago safe was apparently just a cheap piece of crap

| 12:35 am EDT August 9, 2022
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When Donald Trump announced yesterday that the FBI was carrying out a search and seizure warrant at Mar-a-Lago, he was particularly irate that the FBI had broken open his safe. It seemed to give away that Trump was concerned about whatever it was that was stored in there.

My first thought was that if the FBI had that easy of a time cracking his safe, it must have been a cheap piece of crap. Sure, the FBI has got to be better at safecracking than most folks. But it’s not like in the movies, where a skilled safecracker can just instantly pop open even the most sophisticated safe. And really, with Trump being such a notorious cheapskate, does it feel like he would have invested real money into a quality safe?

Sure enough, Brian Entin of the NewsNation cable news channel is reporting that Donald Trump’s safe was a “hotel style safe.” In other words it’s what you’d use to keep the maid from stealing your laptop. And it’s fine for that purpose. But it’s beyond absurd to think that a billionaire former President of the United States, who was trying to hide stolen classified documents from the Feds, would have the kind of cheap piece of crap hotel safe that sells for $153 on Amazon and is designed to be broken into by the hotel manager. Yet with Trump, somehow it’s not surprising.