Trump Told White House Team He Needed to Protect 'Russiagate' Documents

[JoeOtterbein]

Rolling Stone

The former president, who left the White House with a trove of sensitive material, believes there are documents that would expose a Deep State plot against him — and told confidants he needed to protect them from the next administration

BY ADAM RAWNSLEY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

IN HIS FINAL days in the White House, Donald Trump told top advisers he needed to preserve certain Russia-related documents to keep his enemies from destroying them.

The documents related to the federal investigation into Russian election meddling and alleged collusion with Trump’s campaign. At the end of his presidency, Trump and his team pushed to declassify these so-called “Russiagate” documents, believing they would expose a “Deep State” plot against him.

According to a person with direct knowledge of the situation and another source briefed on the matter, Trump told several people working in and outside the White House that he was concerned Joe Biden’s incoming administration — or the “Deep State” — would supposedly “shred,” bury, or destroy “the evidence” that Trump was somehow wronged.

Trump’s concern about preserving the Russia-related material is newly relevant after an FBI search turned up a trove of government documents at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

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[niyad]

1. Stroke out already, you F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR**.

[BigmanPigman]

3. My family and friends have wondered for 6

long years how this asshole hasn't been assassinated by someone. I guess he feels confident that the "snowflake" Dems would never dream of such an act of violence. It boggles the mind.

[BigmanPigman]

2. At this point I would only be surprised I'd he did NOT

show/give away everything but the kitchen sink and even that is in question. The easiest and fastest approach for investigating him would be to assume he took everything not nailed down and then go from there through a process of elimination.

[elleng]

4. SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

IN HIS FINAL days in the White House, Donald Trump told top advisers he needed to preserve certain Russia-related documents to keep his enemies from destroying them.

The documents related to the federal investigation into Russian election meddling and alleged collusion with Trump’s campaign. At the end of his presidency, Trump and his team pushed to declassify these so-called “Russiagate” documents, believing they would expose a “Deep State” plot against him.

According to a person with direct knowledge of the situation and another source briefed on the matter, Trump told several people working in and outside the White House that he was concerned Joe Biden’s incoming administration — or the “Deep State” — would supposedly “shred,” bury, or destroy “the evidence” that Trump was somehow wronged.

Trump’s concern about preserving the Russia-related material is newly relevant after an FBI search turned up a trove of government documents at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

Since the search, Trump has refused to say which classified government papers and top-secret documents he had at Mar-a-Lago and what was the FBI had seized. (Trump considers the documents “mine” and has directed his lawyers to make that widely-panned argument in court.) The feds have publicly released little about the search and its results. It’s unclear if any of the materials in Trump’s document trove are related to Russia or the election interference investigation. A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.'>>>

[SergeStorms]

5. Excuse #146.

They keep throwing everything they can think of against the wall to see if it'll stick.

Guess what, Dirty Don? This one isn't going to work either. In fact, it may actually work against you in a court of law, so stuff it!

[gratuitous]

8. Another turd thrown at the wall

See if it sticks any better than the first 145.

[sop]

6. He just confessed to stealing classified documents...again.

Why isn't Trump in jail?

[onecaliberal]

7. If those documents showed his innocence in any way shape or form they would be plastered over every

Newspaper in this country and wall to wall coverage on cable for a month.

[Botany]

12. +1

n/t

[duforsure]

9. Here it comes again, the floating of excuses out there to see what'll work,

This is a standard procedure for fascist republicans to do for the career criminal DT, then as even worse news comes out he sold top secrets and profited from it, they'll be desperately trying to dismiss it, and direct attention away from it.

[blogslug]

10. The Classification of the Documents is Irrelevant

They are not your documents, you putrid orange clod.

[kentuck]

11. He's got 'em but he can't show them to you?

Uh-huh.

Like he had Obama's birth certificate.