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This from an article in the Atlantic in 2018:
...how little Donald Trump reads. While, like many of the tendencies described in Michael Wolffs Fire and Fury, Trumps indifference to the printed word has been apparent for some time, the depth and implications of Trumps strong preference for oral communication over the written word demand closer examination.
He didnt process information in any conventional sense, Wolff writes. He didnt read. He didnt really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate.
Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: Its worse than you can imagine Trump wont read anythingnot one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.
If Trump had no interest in reading the documents himself...
link to article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/
LaMouffette
(2,049 posts)which documents would be most valuable to the Saudis, to the Russians, to China.
I heard on "Morning Joe" this morning that Benedict Donald was livid that he did not get a cut of the $2 billion that Jared got from the Saudis. So maybe when Jared came across documents of special interest to the Saudis he just pocketed them and took them personally to Prince Bonesaw on his whirlwind trip to Saudi Arabia shortly before the 2020 election. From a Vanity Fair article:
[link:https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-saudi-arabia|
I'm quite sure Jared made use of some of those classified documents. What else was he selling the Saudis for $2 billion? Who knows what else he did.
As for Trump, even if he doesn't read, he knew he had things of value in his midst. Being he has no attention span, he probably grabbed as many as he could to sort out at a later date.
dutch777
(3,078 posts)Leveraging information was never his strong suit. Leveraging images of power and stature were.
hay rick
(7,764 posts)I assume Trump didn't read or even skim 99% of the documents. If he wasn't personally interested in the information in the documents, I believe their value to him was as trophies and auction items.
Duppers
(28,149 posts)I'm sure.