After months and months of the American people wondering if Donald Trump was set to get away with yet another blatant crime, a federal grand jury is now investigating the corrupt, one-term, twice-impeached ex-president’s dangerous mishandling of several boxes of classified White House materials that were discovered by the National Archives at his Mar-a-Lago home/resort.
The former guy was busted taking numerous boxes of classified, top-secret documents from the White House after his presidency ended and relocating them to his Florida resort that he now calls home — a violation of the Presidential Records Act. This discovery was made after the January 6th House Select Committee, that’s currently investigating the ex-president’s role in the heinous Capitol attack, subpoenaed these records from the National Archives, only to find out that Trump had wrongfully taken them with him.
Now, one legal expert is speaking out and saying that the matter should be getting a lot more national attention than it is — because they believe this forthcoming grand jury probe could reveal that Donald Trump took those records for “personal profit” after the humiliating end of his presidency.
The development of a grand jury, in this case, is a heavy indicator that the US Department of Justice believes that a crime was committed by the ex-president, and MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi, the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said that the reporting that’s been made available in the case thus far already reveals that the 15 boxes of top-secret materials were believed to have been kept at the Trump White House residence before being packed up and sent with Trump to Mar-a-Lago upon his departure.
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” Fifteen boxes of classified documents sitting in the residential wing of the White House doesn’t sound like a mistake to me,” Figliuzzi wrote in his analysis for MSNBC. “That sounds deliberate and less like an error that could be attributed to staff. Virtually every day during my 25 years with the FBI, I handled classified information. It was my experience that staffers, whose job is to know and comply with the rules and regulations for handling such data, don’t deliberately break those rules unless someone at a high level makes them break those rules. That’s why I don’t believe this grand jury is targeting low-level staffers.”
It’s undeniable that investigators in the case will want to know what exactly was in those 15 boxes, and why the ex-president was so concerned about making sure they came to his Florida resort with him.
“As Justice Department investigators examine the documents, they’ll be able to see whether the contents held some value to Trump or those around him and possibly determine whether Trump could benefit from whatever’s in those documents,” Figliuzzi penned. “We mustn’t forget that during Trump’s term, his family members parlayed their relationship with him into personal profit and that while he was president, Trump’s own businesses reportedly raked in $2.4 billion.”
According to the former FBI official, the case against Trump may already be a whole lot bigger than what we even realize.
“The first step to solving the Mar-a-Lago mystery is to get those documents into the hands of federal prosecutors and agents,” he writes. “The convening of a grand jury suggests that may have already happened. Now, we wait for the mystery to be solved.”
Read the full analysis right here.
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