President Biden warned last night, “For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to use a nuclear weapon if things actually continue down the path they are on…I didn’t realize how horrendous damage the previous administration had done to our foreign policy.”

So, yeah, what Donald Trump did with these top-secret files including “Nuclear capabilities of a foreign country The seized documents in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago are “somewhat necessary. Let’s not forget,” some of the seized documents detail highly-guarded US operations so closely guarded that many top national security officials don’t know about them. “

And now, today we learned that there is a strong suggestion that classified documents stolen by Donald Trump were handled *after* his presidency.

Ryan Goodman, co-editor of Just Security, highlighted a nugget today that seemed to refer to Trump “handling funds/materials after the presidency.”

To start, Goodman was observing whether any of Trump’s personal records got mixed up with classified documents Trump had stolen after 1/20/2021 — the date the nation finally watched Donald Trump and his mob-style group leave White. a house.

He is believed to have spied on at least three documents after Trump exited. This indicates that the documents were handled after he left the office. (I guess we all doubt and we’ll bet that Trump handled the documents after he left office, but that hasn’t been proven yet. That’s important.)

I was watching this.

Whether any of Trump’s personal records are mixed with classified documents, dated 1/20/2021.

These three in the franchise review team’s inventory seem to make the case

Legal significance: refers to the handling of funds/materials after the presidency pic.twitter.com/VtMsOtwOo6

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– Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) October 7, 2022

Goodman cites a confidentiality agreement with the PGA, documents relating to his claim against his niece Mary L. Trump, and a file marked as a “news article” containing an event and services agreement for comment.

He points to two articles related to the inventory record, one of which is a Washington Post analysis of What the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago.

good man addresses The boxes recovered by the National Archives in January 2022 also included “Post-Presidency Records”. But it was not clear whether this was how it was stored in the MAL or instead how it was packaged in returning the material to the archive.”

Now that we’ve established that it certainly looks like the classified documents that Trump stole have been dealt with Mail What’s the presidency?

Yesterday we learned that the Department of Justice told Trump’s lawyers that they think so Not all documents returned He took when he left the White House. Furthermore, “investigators remain skeptical that Mr. Trump was fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents that the former president was supposed to have handed over to the National Archives at the end of his term.

“It is not clear what steps the Department of Justice might take to recover any material it believes Mr. Trump is still in possession of.”

The problem is that as the DOJ is negotiating with someone who has already lied to them through their attorney, a very dreaded threat to the national security of the United States looms large. This is no small problem because at the moment President Joe Biden is pushing to rebuild and hold NATO (Trump caused a lot of damage there and then Russia’s invasion of Ukraine).

This should raise a lot of alarm, and beg the question, why hasn’t Trump been indicted yet? It’s been 18 months of “negotiating” with Trump to comply with the law. He hasn’t done so voluntarily yet.

Trump has yet to tell us why he took these documents and what he did with them. He had no right to take them, he was aware of this, he was asked to return them several times and even lied about doing so after a subpoena. Every effort was made to work with him and then some.

There are suggestions from critics and hardcore supporters that no one should criticize the Department of Justice for doing things behind the scenes, etc. But experts see potential problems with the way the issue is being handled – the key here is It seems, because no one actually knows what the Department of Justice is doing, except for those directly involved. no one.

But Andrew Wiseman spent 20 years at the Department of Justice. He wrote the bestselling book Where the Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation. If anyone can take an informed guess as to what’s going on, it’s Wiseman.

Hours before this disclosure, Weizmann had been referring to a problem with Justice Department staff in the case of a classified Trump document that appears to be “the lead attorney trained to think of the Department of Justice’s role as negotiating compliance with the law after discovering that the person is violating the law. Indicting the person to promote compliance with the law.”

The problem with DOJ personnel in the ML case (at least that’s visible) is that the lead attorney is trained to think of the DOJ’s role as negotiating compliance with the law after finding that the person is in violation versus charging the person to promote compliance with the law.

– Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) October 7, 2022

We don’t know what the Ministry of Justice is doing. It seems crazy that they are blatantly scared in their dealings with Trump, but to be fair to them, Trump is a former president and this is uncharted territory.

They are also dealing with a man who has successfully politicized a birth certificate, mainstream white supremacy and neo-Nazis, and turned a violent domestic terrorist attack on our country into something the media hates to name exactly. There is also a disturbing account of Trump’s indulgence in petty lawsuits and the use of lawyers to intimidate and silence witnesses. I bet the Department of Justice has never faced such a daunting or important task in its history.

Watch what happens next, and be careful about dealing with people who claim that the Department of Justice has dealt with this and everyone will be jailed, as well as those who claim that the Department of Justice is doing nothing. The Department of Justice does something, a lot of things – the questions are: is it effective, does it respond with appropriate appreciation to the fact that time is of the essence, and do they have the will to charge a former president if the evidence compels it?

Nothing seemed a more apt description of the Trump presidency than the legal documents: Donald J. Trump vs. the United States of America.

Ms. Jones is the co-founder/editor of PoliticusUSA and a member of the White House Press Caucus.

Sarah hosts Politicus News and co-hosts Politicus Radio. Her analysis has appeared on numerous radio and television news, national talk shows, and print outlets including USA with David Schuster, as well as The Washington Post, Atlantic Wire, CNN, MSNBC, The Week, The Hollywood Reporter, and more. .

Sarah is a member of the Association of Professional Journalists.

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