So this is your friendly questioner here; you know I ask the questions everyone else is too proper to ask.
So let’s begin.….….… Why do you think Donald Trump took highly classified material that he had no business having and kept at Mara Largo?
Okay, so I understand that the mainstream media is not going to discuss it the way I do; they will tell you he probably believes they are his because some of it may have been collected during his presidency, and so he believes he has a right to them.
I am skeptical; I believe he took them for a specific reason. I’ll explain.
You will remember that the story is that the Russians helped Trump get elected, right? You also know that Special Counsel Robert Muller was not allowed to thoroughly investigate the Russian collusion that Donald Trump labeled a ‘hoax”.
You will also remember that his guy Michael Flynn was under Federal investigation for being a foreign agent, and Trump made him National Security Adviser notwithstanding.
You will also remember the Trump-Putin Meeting in 2018 and the world’s response when Trump refused to speak out against Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential elections, which made him president. Instead, Donald Trump chastised America’s security agencies and laws for suggesting that the Russians had interfered in the elections. But why would Trump chide Vladimir Putin for making him President of the most powerful nation in the world?
In fact, if Donald Trump is a Russian agent as a result of Putin’s help in making him president, doesn’t he owe Putin a large debt of gratitude that is outside withholding military help from Ukraine and badmouthing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? (NATO).
At the time Donald Trump emerged with Vladimir in Helsinki, Finland, he looked like a beaten man who had just received a tongue lashing from his boss.
The German Foreign Office immediately tweeted out the following.
“We can no longer fully rely on the White House,” says Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas In order to recalibrate our partnership with the US, we need a united, confident, and sovereign Europe!
Leading up to the Trump-Putin Helsinki meeting, Jonathan Chait writing for New York Magazine, asked the pertinent question; Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
I run the risk of boring you with too deep a dive, so let us focus on the search of his estate by the FBI, a first for any former American President.
Why would Trump not hand over the sensitive documents in full when he was asked?
Why did he keep those top secret documents even after he was subpoenaed to hand them over? You do not believe that Donald Trump merely wanted to keep boring paperwork he would certainly never read when he did not even read the briefing books while he was president and was required to read them.
Why did Donald Trump’s lawyers submit a letter to the Department of Justice that they had turned over all the documents Trump had?
Former Homeland Security adviser Olivia Troye revealed that she once found a classified document left in a women’s bathroom in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where most White House offices are housed. Troye told MSNBC in an interview Sunday that she felt “panic” when she discovered the material on a bathroom shelf in the building next to the White House. She said she was terrified but secured the document and handed it over to security.
It is easy to brush something like that off and say, ‘Oh, some staffer had the document and accidentally left it there after she used the restroom”. In fairness to Trump, Ms. Troye also said that it was common in the Trump white house to see staffers mishandle sensitive documents.
But what if this was no accident? What if the document was left there for someone to retrieve?
As a matter of fact, hardly anyone expected Donald Trump to pick up the phone and call Vladimir Putin, “hey Vlad, I have some nuclear secrets for you; you want me to fax them over”?
No American reporters were allowed in the room.
How far-fetched is it to imagine that the top secret documents Donald Trump took down the I‑95 to his private for-profit club where he also lives were taken for profit?
As a courtesy, past presidents are given security briefings, but President Joe Biden stopped those briefings to Donald Trump a year ago.
What does Joe Biden know that made him decide to break with precedent and prevent Trump from getting any further intelligence briefings?
If a former president cannot be trusted with sensitive intelligence briefings, why would he be allowed to keep sensitive and top secret information belonging to the government? The short answer is that he should not have those documents.
Trump’s minions demanded that the search warrant used to enter Mara Lago be unsealed. The Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, also asked a Federal judge to unseal the warrant. So a Federal judge unsealed the warrant, which revealed that Donald Trump is being investigated under the espionage act.
Shockingly, we also learned that some of the documents Trump refused to hand over were nuclear-related, super secret information that should have been in the vaults at the national archives.
Donald Trump’s minions were not swayed by the sheer weight of what we learned; they switched gears and demanded the release of the affidavits associated with that search.
The warrant detailed what they were looking for and what they found.
The affidavit would expose those who gave information to the FBI that the documents were, in fact, still at Trump’s club. Naturally, this is an absolute no, so the Justice Department objected, arguing that retrieving the documents was not a one-off affair but part of an ongoing investigation.
That is bad news for Donald Trump.
The Daily Beast argued after the Mara Lago search; Donald Trump was, and is, a national security risk unlike any the United States has ever faced.
Writing for Lawfare, National Security Official John B Bellinger wrote; In December 2015, I wrote a post for Lawfare entitled “Donald Trump Is a Danger to Our National Security,” in which I argued that Trump not only lacked “the qualifications to be president, he is actually endangering our national security right now by his hate-filled and divisive rhetoric.” I concluded Donald Trump not only would be a dangerous president, he is making us less safe as a candidate.” At the time, I may have been the first national security official to write publicly that Trump was and would be a threat to the United States. Tragically, more than five years later, Trump is still a danger to our national security.
If it walks like a Duck, quacks like a Duck, and acts like a Duck, maybe, we need to accept that it is a Duck. The circumstantial evidence that suggests that Donald J Trump is a Russian agent that some believe Russia has been cultivating for over 40 years is overwhelming.
The American majority ignores that evidence at its peril. The fundamental thing here is that America is being directed by a white minority that is willing, in the name of white supremacy, to destroy the 246 years of democratic governance to maintain white supremacy.
Donald Trump is only a vehicle towards that end.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.