Trump Was Hiding More Than 300 Classified Documents At Mar a Lago

New information has come out about Donald Trump's massive document stash at Mar-a-Lago, and we now know that there were more than 300 classified documents recovered. But the DOJ is now requesting even more surveillance footage from the resort, apparently believing that there could be even MORE documents still hiding. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Well folks, we finally now know, at least we think we know the extent to which Donald Trump had stolen documents from the white house. And it turns out that he took at least 300 classified documents spanning 700 pages. And yes, I did say classified documents. So of course that's not everything he took. That's just what was deemed classified that was sitting down there at Malago to complicate matters a little further. Some of these documents were actually found lying on the floor next to a padlocked room. Others were in his closet in his actual office down there in Malago that, according to those down there in Malago, he referred to as quote mine. So doesn't seem like the FBI was being weaponized or politicized or whatever it is Republicans wanna say about it, because he seems to have done the thing that, uh, well he's accused of doing to make matters worse.

Of course, his lawyers in court this week said that all the FBI had to do was basically go down there and, you know, ask to see the documents, which may seem innocuous enough, right? Because we're finding out more and more about the conversations that the DOJ was having with Trump's lawyers, the multiple different times when they had these confirmations requesting these documents and Trump's lawyers this week in their, uh, in ARA filing said, yeah, I mean, we, we would've gladly given these to them, but they, they didn't ask, which is actually an admission that the documents were there. So that of course, as I said, is from Trump's own legal team, admitting that he did the thing that he's being accused of doing so not off to a great start now, are we, but of course that's what happens when you can't find any quality lawyers to represent you.

And you're stuck with, you know, whatever's left at the bottom of the barrel, which to be honest is what Donald Trump's dealing with with his legal team, but folks 700 pages of classified information, some of it E explicitly pertaining to the United States nuclear capabilities. And it was some of it was just left, lying around, not even under locking key, just whatever, toss it on the floor, who cares this is so much worse than any of us could have ever imagined. And of course, none of this even begins to touch on the big point. And that is

Why did he have it in the first place? That's the big question that so far has not been answered. And I know we're all focused on the criminality of it. Is it a violation of the presidential records act? Is it a violation of the espionage act? And all of those answers will be given to us through court proceedings. The question is, why did he have them? What was he going to do with them? Was he going to use them as some of his biographers have suggested to write a book? Was he gonna use it as political blackmail? Was he gonna use it to try to discredit the FBI? Or was he going to sell it to other countries, trying to get business deals saying, Hey, I'd like to build a tower over here. I know you don't usually zone for that. So what if I gave you some state secrets of the us? We don't know. And any one of those things is of course, a viable possibility when talking about Donald Trump. So to me, that's the big thing that we need answered. What was he going to do with these 700 classified pieces of paper? That unfortunately is something that we may not ever get the answer to. Even if we get a conviction outta Trump,