'Fox & Friends' host Steve Doocy calls out Donald Trump: 'Why did he have all that secret stuff at Mar-a-Lago?' https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-doocy-calls-out-donald-trump-over-top-secret-files-2022-9 Fox News host Steve Doocy wondered aloud why Trump kept "all that secret stuff at Mar-a-Lago." Doocy said he couldn't recall any president "carting off" so many files during their time in office. He also questioned why Trump didn't simply hand the documents over, given their classified nature. "Fox & Friends" host Steve Doocy is the latest media ally of former President Donald Trump to call him out over the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago. During a Wednesday episode of the show, Doocy asked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, another Trump ally, for her take on the Mar-a-Lago raid — but not before wondering aloud why Trump didn't hand over the documents to the government and instead took them to his Florida home. "Well, ultimately it comes down to — why did he have all that secret stuff at Mar-a-Lago?" Doocy asked. He referenced Trump's claim about declassifying the files through a standing order and pointed out that this defense didn't hold up as the supposed move was also "news to the agencies that those documents belong to." "He had, apparently, three classified documents in his desk," Doocy said, referring to the DOJ's court filing on the raid. Doocy also referred to a photo released by the DOJ of the top-secret documents found at Mar-a-Lago. "It shows five yellow folders marked 'top secret,' and another one with that says 'secret SCI' which means 'sensitive compartmentalized information,'" Doocy said. "Those are the biggest secrets in the world." Noem attempted to defend Trump, calling for more transparency in the DOJ's investigation. However, Doocy sidestepped her argument and stated: "I don't think any President has ever carted off that many documents to their house after they left the presidency." Doocy is just one of many members of Rupert Murdoch's media empire who appear to have shifted their stance on supporting Trump in recent weeks. Last month, Fox News host Eric Shawn asked aloud during a live broadcast if Trump could have tried to "sell or share" classified information with Russia or Saudi Arabia. In July, Trump also expressed his unhappiness with "Fox & Friends," a talk show he was known to do nearly weekly calls with during his presidency. In a Truth Social post, he called the talk show "terrible" and said it had "gone to the dark side" after Doocy questioned his poll numbers. These rumblings from Fox News hosts may signal a shift in Murdoch's empire's attitude toward Trump. This week, for one, the former president raged against the Murdoch-owned New York Post over an opinion piece it published titled "Republicans are lucky to have Mitch McConnell: Trump's gripes are beyond ridiculous." The Post also denounced Trump in an editorial piece in July, calling him "unworthy to be this country's chief executive again." Additionally, the Wall Street Journal — another Murdoch-owned publication — called Trump "The President Who Stood Still on Jan. 6" while praising former Vice President Mike Pence. Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating whether Trump broke three federal laws, including the Espionage Act, by keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The agency removed 11 sets of classified documents — some of which were marked as top secret and concerned nuclear weapons, according to The Washington Post — from the property while executing a search warrant on August 8.
And look at the guy's neck: Is it transitioning? Maybe some should take his advice and grab him by the...
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Mar-a-Lago search inventory shows documents marked as classified mixed with clothes, gifts, press clippings https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/poli...ventory-from-the-mar-a-lago-search/index.html US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday released a detailed inventory from the Mar-a-Lago search that the Justice Department previously filed under seal in court. The search inventory released showed that classified documents had been mixed in with personal items and other materials in the boxes in which they were stored. Federal investigators also retrieved more than 11,000 non-classified government documents. One box containing documents marked with confidential, secret and top secret classification identifications also contained "99 magazines/newspapers/press articles," according to the inventory from last month's search filed in federal court in Florida. Several other boxes detailed in the inventory contained documents marked as classified stored with press clippings, as well as with articles of clothing and gifts. The court filing also provided a breakdown of the type of markings on the classified material taken from Mar-a-Lago, including 18 documents marked top secret, 54 documents marked secret and 31 documents marked confidential. In addition, federal investigators collected more than 48 empty folders with a "classified banner" and 42 empty folders marked to return to the staff secretary or military aide. The judge also released a status report the department filed under seal about its investigative team's review of the evidence so far. Cannon at a hearing on Thursday indicated she intended to release the documents. She did so after giving both the prosecutors and former President Donald Trump's lawyers the opportunity to lodge any objections to the documents' release. They did not. Prosecutors wrote in the investigative team status report that was unsealed that "all evidence pertaining to the seized items -- including, but not limited to, the nature and manner in which they were stored, as well as any evidence with respect to particular documents or items of interest -- will inform the government's investigation." "The investigative team has reviewed the seized materials in furtherance of its ongoing investigation, evaluating the relevance and character of each item seized, and making preliminary determinations about investigative avenues suggested or warranted by the character and nature of the seized items," the status report said. "The seized materials will continue to be used to further the government's investigation, and the investigation will continue to use and evaluate the seized materials as it takes further investigative steps, such as through additional witness interviews and grand jury practice," the Justice Department added. This story is breaking and will be updated.
Big issue that jumped out at me is the cataloguing of secret cover sheets and folders without the associated documents. Every single page associated with those slips and folders has to be tracked down.
There were ostensibly Chinese & Russian assets @ Mar-a-Lardo. Every single document regardless if found or not, has to be assumed was scanned, photographed, or copied by non-Americans
Probably. In the status report, the fbi represented they are determining the “character” of the classified documents seized from Trump. Basically what did this idiot take and what threat does this pose to American security.