Trump keeps whining about 'Gestapo' raid that found 'inexpensive & very common' classified documents

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When classified documents were found at Donald Trump's Palm Beach resort last year, one of his defenses was that they were just empty folders kept as keepsakes from his time as president. Now, as the Daily Beast points out, he seems to be doubling down on that claim.

In a post to Truth Social Tuesday, Trump wrote that "many of the so-called ‘documents’ that the ‘Gestapo’ took in the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, unlike the ‘No Raids of Biden,’ were merely inexpensive and very common folders with words such as ‘Presidential Reading,’ ‘Confidential,’ ‘Classified,’ or other words stamped on the front cover."

According to Trump, the folders were left behind after official meetings without the classified documents they contained.

“I would put them in a pile and keep them as momentous,” Trump said, misspelling ‘mementos.’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-keeps-whining-about-gestapo-raid-that-found-inexpensive-and-very-common-classified-documents/ar-AA17tHCU

[Midnight Writer]

1. He already sold the "expensive ones".

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Yes, nice that's he tested the free market prices on these documents

Otherwise, how would he value them?

[Scrivener7]

9. Right? What a fascinating way to choose to describe them - for their

monetary value.

No doubt what is in his head is "The folders they found were inexpensive. The stuff I sold that was once inside them was worth a fuck-ton of money when I sold it."

[Irish_Dem]

12. He knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde.

[fightforfreedom]

2. He's scared.

[onecaliberal]

3. "Inexpensive". Translation: No foreign government was willing to pay big money for.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. "Inexpensive." I guess he had classified docs for even budget-conscious foreign enemies.

[Caliman73]

5. Over 300 DOCUMENTS, not folders DOCUMENTS were taken into custody...

I know that Trump lies like other people breathe, but seriously? He can't even not lie when his bullshit can be fact checked easily.

That is pathological.

[republianmushroom]

7. 24 months and counting

maybe or someday A-O ?

[gratuitous]

8. If you take and keep something that doesn't belong to you, you're a thief

That includes even inexpensive and very common classified document folders.

[Pobeka]

10. Empty folders is evidence for mishandling of classified documents.

Probably a federal crime. If it happened once or twice, it could be inadvertent, if it happened 20 or 30 times, it shows intent.

[haele]

11. Err... who thinks classified documents have a market value?

I guess foreign agents do.
Also soon to be felons who shouldn't ever have had a security clearance do.

Haele

[LuckyCharms]

13. His statement is even more telling than it first appears to be. n/t

[Solly Mack]

14. He's admitting he has had their monetary value assessed.

Only one reason to do that.

[crickets]

17. Exactly. nt

[Johnny2X2X]

15. Inexpensive, LOL

Did he keep them in the bargain bin for foreigners to go through, like the used DVD bins at video stores? The expensive ones were behind glass and you had to call the manager before asking handling those ones.

[DFW]

16. Inexpensive?

as in, "I offered them to both the Russian and the Chinese, but neither would even offer me $1 million for any of them!"

[Autumn]

18. Inexpensive? Vlad was tight with the money when he bought them?