New York Times correspondent and so-called “Trump Whisperer” Maggie Haberman reveals that she was left stunned by former President Donald Trump last year, after he openly, casually, and almost proudly boasted to her that he had kept numerous official White House documents upon the end of his presidential term — documents connected to the very same scandal that’s now earned him a full-blown investigation by the Department of Justice for violations of numerous laws and regulations, including the Espionage Act, and an FBI search and seizure warrant raid at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Haberman’s revelation came in her new tell-all book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, where she recalls a Sept. 16, 2021, meeting with the disgraced former POTUS as his Bedminster, New Jersey, during which Donald Trump casually admitted to the New York Times reporter that he has intentionally hung onto multiple government records that, according to precedent and the law, rightfully belonged to the National Archives and Records Administration.
Reporting on the bombshell revelation comes from Axios, after obtaining and publishing advance experts of Haberman’s forthcoming new book.
Maggie Haberman writes:
He demurred when I asked if he had taken any documents of note upon departing the White House — ‘nothing of great urgency, no,’ he said, before mentioning the letters that Kim Jong-un had sent him, which he had showed off to so many Oval Office visitors that advisers were concerned he was being careless with sensitive material.”
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Haberman admits to expressing stunned surprise over Trump’s decision to take those letters, which he allegedly ultimately returned months and months later, only after the National Archives and Records Administration was forced to make numerous demands.
“He kept talking, seeming to have registered my surprise, and said, ‘No, I think that’s in the archives, but … Most of it is in the archives, but the Kim Jong-un letters … We have incredible things,'” Maggie writes.
Early last month, agents with the FBI — operating on a search and seizure warrant handed down by the US Department of Justice and signed off on by Attorney General Merrick Garland himself — executed a search and seizure warrant raid against ex-President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club resort and post-White House home. In the course of their search and seizure, agents allegedly seized more than 11,000 documents and 1,800 other items at his Palm Beach estate, including but not limited to approximately 100 pieces of material that were deemed classified — some of which were clearly marked “Top Secret.”
The Mar-a-Lago search warrant, which has since been publicly released, confirmed that investigators believe Donald Trump violated numerous federal laws and regulations, including the Presidential Records Act and the Espionage Act.
Read the full report from Axios here.
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