When you say “bathroom”, are you referring to the locked room that additional locks were added to as per instructions from the Justice Dept.? Or are you referring to the glove compartment of Biden’s Vette, or his garage floor? Oh wait, Biden was only a Vice President and didn’t have legal access to those documents, my bad! We’ll just move on, “these are not the droids we’re looking for”…
lol what!
Are you suggesting the DOJ asked him to put additional locks to store stolen classified documents in his bathroom?!
Fk are you du.mb?!
May 6 — The National Archives makes a request for missing presidential records “and continued to make requests until approximately late December 2021 when NARA was informed twelve boxes were found and ready for retrieval” at Mar-a-Lago, according to the Department of Justice’s
affidavit requesting a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago.
July 21 — Trump gives an interview at his New Jersey golf club for a upcoming book, and shows the author and three others, none of whom has a security clearance, what the former president calls a “highly confidential” document that describes a “plan of attack” on another country. “See as president I could have declassified it,”
Trump says, according to the indictment. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”
August — Walt Nauta, who served as Trump’s valet at the White House, becomes an executive assistant to the former president.
August or September — Trump shows a staffer for his political action committee “a classified map related to a military operation” in another country,
the indictment says. He tells the PAC staffer not to get too close, because the aide doesn’t have a security clearance.
November — Trump
starts to review boxes of documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.
December —
NARA begins to arrange for the documents to be securely transported from Mar-a-Lago to Washington.
2022
Jan. 18 — NARA receives 15 boxes of records from Trump that had been taken to Mar-a-Lago, including “highly classified documents intermingled with other records,” according to DOJ’s
affidavit. The boxes contain
197 classified documents.
some of the records it retrieved from Mar-a-Lago “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump.” NARA adds, “As has been reported in the press since 2018, White House records management officials during the Trump Administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records.”
Feb. 7 — NARA issues a
statement confirming that it had received 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago in mid-January. “Former President Trump’s representatives have informed NARA that they are continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives,” the statement says.
Feb. 8 — NARA issues a
statement that says: “Throughout the course of the last year, NARA obtained the cooperation of Trump representatives to locate Presidential records that had not been transferred to the National Archives at the end of the Trump administration. When a representative informed NARA in December 2021 that they had located some records, NARA arranged for them to be securely transported to Washington. NARA officials did not visit or ‘raid’ the Mar-a-Lago property.”
Feb. 9 — The special agent in charge of NARA’s Office of the Inspector General refers the matter to the Department of Justice, according to DOJ’s
affidavit.
Feb. 18 — The archivist of the United States
sends a letter to the House Oversight Committee that
says: “NARA has identified items marked as classified national security information” in the materials recovered from Mar-a-Lago. As a result, “NARA staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice.”
Trump issues a
statement that says, “The National Archives did not ‘find’ anything, they were given, upon request, Presidential Records in an ordinary and routine process to ensure the preservation of my legacy and in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.”
March 30 — The FBI
opens a criminal investigation.
April 11 — At the Department of Justice’s request, the White House Counsel’s Office
formally transmits a letter asking that “NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes” taken from Mar-a-Lago.
April 12 — NARA notifies Trump’s lawyer that it intends to
provide FBI access to the 15 boxes of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago in January.
April 26 — A federal grand jury
opens an investigation.
April 29 — The Department of Justice’s National Security Division sends a letter to Evan Corcoran, an attorney for Trump, that says access to documents taken from Mar-a-Lago is “necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation.”
“According to NARA, among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages,”
the letter says. “Some include the highest levels of classification, including Special Access Program (SAP) materials.”
The DOJ tells Corcoran it needs access to the documents to assess “the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported.”
That same day, Corcoran writes to NARA, seeking to
delay the FBI review of the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago. Corcoran argues that Trump needs time “to ascertain whether any specific document is subject to [executive] privilege” and have the opportunity “to assert a claim of constitutionally based privilege.”
May 1 — Corcoran again asks NARA to
delay the FBI review.
May 10 — In response to Corcoran’s request for a delay, Debra Steidel Wall, acting archivist of the United States,
sends a letter to Corcoran, saying that she “decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege,” and to allow the FBI review to begin as soon as May 12.
“The question [of executive privilege] in this case is not a close one,” Wall writes. “The [current] Executive Branch here is seeking access to records belonging to, and in the custody of, the Federal Government itself, not only in order to investigate whether those records were handled in an unlawful manner but also, as the National Security Division explained, to ‘conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps.'” (The
letter was first
publishedAug. 23 on a website
owned by journalist John Solomon, who was
designated by Trump to serve as his liaison to NARA.)
May 11 — Trump’s office receives a grand jury subpoena seeking additional documents “
bearing classification markings.” (The subpoena is disclosed in a
motion filed by Trump on Aug. 22.)
A DOJ attorney also sends a letter to Trump’s lawyer asking for a sworn statement from a Trump representative that any documents provided in response to the subpoena “represent all responsive records,” a Justice Department
court filing says.
May 16-18 — FBI agents review the 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago. They identify “184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as CONFIDENTIAL, 92 documents marked as SECRET, and 25 documents marked as TOP SECRET,” according to the DOJ
affidavit.
May 23 — One attorney — identified in the indictment as “Trump Attorney 1,” but reported to be Corcoran — kept notes on the conversation. Trump says, among other things, “I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t, I don’t want you looking through my boxes.” Trump also asks questions, such as, “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” They agree that Corcoran will return to search Mar-a-Lago on June 2 for documents responsive to the subpoena. (Trump’s response to the subpoena is described in
the indictment.)
May 24 — Trump’s lawyer seeks an “extension for complying” with the subpoena to produce any additional classified documents, according to a
DOJ court filing. (The DOJ later granted the extension until June 7.)
Nauta, Trump’s executive assistant, moves three boxes from the storage room to Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago at the president’s direction, the indictment says.
May 25 — Corcoran, Trump’s lawyer, sends the Justice Department a letter that asserts, among other things, that Trump, as president, had “Absolute Authority To Declassify” government documents, according to DOJ’s
affidavit.
May 26 — FBI interviews Nauta. He tells the FBI that he is not aware of any boxes being moved from storage to Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago,
according to the indictment.
May 30 — Nauta moves about 50 more boxes from storage to Trump’s residence.
June 1 — Nauta moves approximately 11 boxes from the storage room to Trump’s residence.
June 2 — In the early afternoon, Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, move about 30 boxes from Trump’s residence back to the storage room, leaving approximately 34 boxes at Trump’s residence without Corcoran’s knowledge, the
superseding indictment says. In the late afternoon, for about two and a half hours, Corcoran reviews the boxes in the storage room and finds 38 documents with classification markings. Afterward, Trump meets with Corcoran in a dining room at Mar-a-Lago and asks about the attorney’s review of the documents. Trump asks, “Did you find anything? … Is it bad? Good?”
Corcoran tells the DOJ that FBI agents can meet him tomorrow and “pick up responsive documents” from Mar-a-Lago, in the words of a
DOJ court filing.
June 3 — Jay Bratt, chief of the counterintelligence and export control section in the DOJ’s National Security Division, and three FBI agents visit Mar-a-Lago, where Corcoran and another attorney, identified as Trump Attorney 3 in the indictment, present them with “a single Redweld envelope” containing documents “in a manner that suggested counsel believed that the documents were classified,” according to
court filings. The agents also tour a storage room, which
DOJ sayscontained about 50 to 55 boxes. Trump’s attorney tells the government agents that “all the records that had come from the White House were stored in one location – a storage room,” and “there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises,” in the words of a
DOJ court filing.
“Critically, however, the former President’s counsel explicitly prohibited government personnel from opening or looking inside any of the boxes that remained in the storage room, giving no opportunity for the government to confirm that no documents with classification markings remained,” the
court filing said.
Biden
Willingly turned over documents to national archives.