How?

[Laurian]

How did Trump get all those sensitive documents out of the White House when strict protocols were in place to safeguard them? Did he have help bypassing normal procedures?

[madaboutharry]

1. He's a crook.

He knows how to steal things.

[OLDMDDEM]

2. And he hires all the best crooks to help him.

[Laurian]

5. What about the person who brought them to him.

Weren’t they obligated monitor their location and get them back to safe keeping?

[FSogol]

3. He had help. n/t

[Walleye]

4. He would get to the end of a briefing, scoop up the documents and take them to the residence

There was nobody there with the guts to stop him and apparently it was common practice. God knows how much crap is in the residence when he finally decided to give up and move out. I’m sure there’s plenty of rooms there with classified documents that nobody was allowed to go look at. So then when he moved they treated it as household goods.

[Laurian]

8. I would freak out if I was the person who provided the documents

to him and didn’t get them back…..immediately, let alone 18 months later.

[Walleye]

14. Yes but you are not in the thrall of the great orange one

[Irish_Dem]

9. So Trump could order a meeting and request specific classified documents.

Documents he knew our enemies wanted and would pay top dollar for.

The person who brought the documents was just doing his job then.

[Laurian]

13. Highly classified secrets wouldn't be delivered by random staff.

Whoever provided them would have known they weren’t returned.

[Irish_Dem]

15. They can say POTUS ordered that the docs stay with him.

That he had a vital reason to keep the documents.

No one is going to argue.

[Walleye]

16. They knew they weren't returned, but how could they get them back?

Trump refused to give them back and kept them in the residence, but what do they do hold him at gunpoint? I don’t think so

[imanamerican63]

6. Absolutely!

With bribes, with fear and any other means of cooperating acknowledge people?

[MissMillie]

7. Just a theory... but after 1/6 I think a lot of WH staff just up and left

I wonder if people who were tasked with keeping track of things were overwhelmed due to staffing shortages.

What I mean is that I think Intelligence staff and NARA staff were aware that materials were in the possession of (then) POTUS, but attempts to retrieve it fell flat because WH staff were leaving en masse. Intelligence and NARA had no one to work with.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes, true. But it is likely he was stealing documents from the beginning.

I don't see Trump sitting on $billion dollar documents for any length of time.

[MissMillie]

18. Well, when he was pResident, he was allowed to have the docs

But I have no doubt that he exploited the chaos to keep the docs.

[Irish_Dem]

19. Oh yes he would take advantage of the chaos and turn the crime spree into high gear.

There is no doubt.

[Laurian]

10. I think there are more people with some explaining to do.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Apparently the procedures are not strict at all. It is easy to steal classified intelligence.

Especially if you are POTUS.

[Wounded Bear]

17. No question he had help...

Everybody knows he wasn't muscle fucking boxes out of the WH himself.

And, the selection of what sensitive info to steal needed some expert advice from others. Everybody knows trump has no intellectual curiosity for anything that he can't profit from.

Yeah, he had help, from folks at the highest levels of government.

[Scrivener7]

20. A big question no one seems to have an answer to.

[2naSalit]

21. Yup.