
Trump Caught Hoarding Top Secret War Plans for Profit?!?!
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Did Donald Trump sell top secret classified information? Use it for profit and compromise our national security interests. That's a question that's being asked again by Democrats in the House led by Representative Jamie Raskin after there's been new reporting that Jack Smith told Merrick Garland while he was special counsel in an update report that there were two major pieces of top secret classified evidence that or information that Donald Trump kept after his presidency was over. One being so sensitive that only six people in the United States, including the president, had the security clearance in order to review it. And yet he was, we Trump was waving it around on an airplane, his airplane from Palm Beach Airport back to LaGuardia Airport back in 2023. And with Susie Wiles is now chief of staff, but then she didn't have a top secret clearance then either. Then just the CEO of his Super PAC and a secret war plan document that could relate to
the Middle East. And now we get right to it. Jack Smith told Merrick Garland according to the new report or the report. And now picked up by Jamie Raskin that the reason they believe that Donald kept all of these things his sticky fingerness, his hoarding, his refusal to turn it over was not because he saw them as mementos is because he wanted to profit from them. Use them in his business transactions and dealings because at the time he never thought he'd be coming back to office. And so he wanted to profit with it. He was doing business with the Saudi Arabians and the people in Dubai and UAE and the rest for real estate deals and cryptocurrency deals. And he wanted to have something in his back pocket. That's the question that Jamie Raskin raises and new and new information that I didn't know before today. Until Raskin raised it in his letter to Pam Bondi is that Pam Bondi the Department of Justice may have just violated the very order that they demanded that judge canon put in place to protect Jack Smith's volume to everything about Mara Lago and his investigation
can't be produced has to be permanently banned and barred even for future departments of justice. And they just cherry picked information from the report gave it to the House Republicans to try to make Jack Smith look bad. That all that did was violate judge canons order that that Bondi demanded. Oh, oh lean in everybody. And I'll tell you what this was that I flashed on the screen in a moment here. I might as touch a Michael Popak. Take a minute hit that free subscribe button for legal AF YouTube. We knew from our following of the Mara Lago matter that Donald Trump in his sticky fingerness and his horning and his taking top secret of classified documents with them stashing them in bathrooms and in dining rooms at Mara Lago spilling out into the hallway when the FBI executed their search warrants. We knew that in there were top secret information classified information. We talked about it. We talked about it at length on legal AF about war plans and nuclear codes and different things that we believe were in there. We knew about
maps that he was showing to people in his office on his plane. He was showing maps to people that were classified while he was writing a book. There was a book writer there, you know, for his his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. We knew all that. Well, we didn't know is about there were other maps and and other top top secret. President's eyes only documents that he was also holding on to and showing to people both on a plane. And this is the aircraft manifest for the plane ride, including Susie Wiles. That's now part of Jamie Raskin's submission to Pam Bondi because he got his hands on it. We know that. We also know about the map and we know about the document that only six people in the world have enough security clearance to review. And we know that Jack Smith based in his update report that he was providing to Merrick Garland as part of his duties that he informed Merrick Garland that he thought the working theory was the motive was profit to sell this information to use it in his business transactions. Here's what
the report actually said one other thing on the use of classified documents I want to bring to your attention. This is Jack Smith to Merrick Garland. We've identified a classified map that we believe Trump may have shown to individuals on board an airplane after he left office. This is an 11 page memo. Our investigation indicates that Susan Wiles the CEO of Trump Super PAC. She's now the chief of staff was aboard the flight and witnessed this event. A further two bullet points about the map were redacted in the memo. Uh, yes, not good. So here's our Jamie Raskin puts it in this letter. I'll put up on legal AF sub stack for our paid members. Uh, this is attorney general Bondi. Why would Donald Trump go to such extraordinary lengths to steal classified documents, hoard them and refuse to return them in the first paragraph together with Donald Trump, your Department of Justice has been fighting tooth and nail to gag special counsel Jack Smith and
Barry is report to answer these questions, but apparently blinded by the frenzied search to find any scrap of evidence that could be twisted and distorted to level an attack against Jack Smith. You have quite amazingly missed the fact that some of the documents you provided to the House Republicans to embarrass Jack Smith include damning evidence about your boss's conduct and may well violate the gag order that you and Trump wanted and demanded from Judge Aileen Cannon. He goes further all in the all black and in bold print will put it up on the screen. I mean, these new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire US government had access to them that the documents he stole pertained to his business interest and that Susie Wiles then the CEO of his super back witnessed it and witnessed him showing off classified map to passengers on his private plane. Uh, this glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the cover up reveals a president of the United
States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself. It's a profit motive. He then went on to outline how Pam Bondy has violated Judge Cannon's order. Judge Cannon just issued an order because Trump demanded it in which she not only sealed in a tomb forever more the uh, Jack Smith's volume two report about Mara Lago and about the espionage and obstruction of justice committed by Donald Trump as alleged. But she also tied the hands of future department of justices to ever release it. Well, then how do they get to cherry pick the information that supports it and there was a next to it and give it to the House Republicans. There's no congressional exemption for a judicial order. Well, I don't really, I didn't really violate it because I gave it to throw up the Maga Republicans in Congress. That's not a thing. And that's what Jamie Raskin is saying. So somebody's going to have to go back. The problem is who's going to go back to Judge Cannon. All the parties are on one side. They're all on the
Trump side. There's nobody left. There's no independent department of justice on this issue. That's why you need a special counsel. Pam Bondy needed to based on the Department of Justice Manual and statute. She should have already appointed a special counsel, right? To replace Jack Smith to continue representing those interests after the case was over, but she didn't and she won't. So he is demanding the following and says we're ready to receive the information because we have a sensitive compartmented information facility, a skiff. One, who was on the plane with President Trump from Florida, Bedminster and New Jersey on June 3, 2022, who was on the plane, who on the plane did he show the classified map to? What did the classified map detail? Which documents did President Trump improperly retain that were pertinent to his business interests and which
specific business interests, which members of his family engaged in his business ventures saw or made aware of the content of these classified documents, including Junior, Eric, Jared, Ivanka and Baron in your answer. Oh, Baron's in there. Which documents did President Trump steal that was so sensitive that only six people in the entire federal government had access to it? Did any of the documents he stole or show to others relate to the US government's war plans in the Middle East? We're waging war there right now. Did any foreign actors access or attempt to access these classified documents that were uploaded into a staffer's computers? Why is this important now? I mean, we have reporting out there that the the Saudi crown prince is against ending the war in Iran. Maybe he's against ending the war in Iran because Donald Trump showed him a classified map and some classified information a few years ago. And that's given him more confidence and more intel that he would normally have. See, when Trump left office, he never thought he was
coming back. He thought he was done and he was just going to pursue real estate deals and transactions, sell some more Trump stakes and golf shirts and open up a cryptocurrency business and an NFT business. He was so shocked as anybody when he ran for office in one again. So so that explains the profit motive, right? Selling out America's national interests. Now we knew some of this before, but the fact that it's now writ large and Jamie Raskin's letter and it's a man and where Jamie Raskin, he starts pounding the table and I'm going to bring him on legal A F for a briefing of our audience. Good things happen. Investigations happen. Forget the initial knee jerk reaction of the Trump administration. Oh, Jamie Raskins have failed failed what failed what lawyer constitutional scholar what representative we don't we don't see him that way. He's a there's there's no there's nothing there. He was cleared. Donald Trump was never cleared. You know, he had his his his judge of
choice, alien cannon fire the special counsel and dismissing indictment. That doesn't clear him. At all, we'll continue to follow it. Your on might as touch and legal A F take a moment. Hit the free subscribe button and help us continue to grow legal A F YouTube. We're going to hit 1.1 million subscribers over the weekend with your help. So my next report on Michael Pope. All the other contributors from legal A F for there as well. We got some new reporting. We got interviews. We got and free versions of the podcast and hot takes where legal A F on sub stack. Come over now to free subscribe. You know what's wild? Most people are still overpaying for car insurance just because it's a
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