THERE MAY BE MORE FBI ‘SEARCHES’ ON TRUMP-A-LAGO AND WHO MIGHT HAVE ASSISTED DONALD TRUMP? WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE RISKS? TREASON?

  The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old,  from 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our focus has been eclectic ...  the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally summarizing the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.                                                                                                                                                                                  -------------------

The rumor is growing that there may be a second FBI search needed to remove additional classified, hidden, White House documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. And, the nature of those documents may be even more serious intelligence threats to American (and it’s allies') security. (The Washington Post's updated report states the August 8, FBI search was about classified documents pertaining to nuclear weapons.)

All of the "classified documents" mess precipitated by the August 8, 2022, FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate raises the thought that because, from reports while he was President, Donald Trump was not savvy enough to understand intelligence matters, nor even interested enough to attend in-depth intelligence briefings, he couldn't have, by himself, put together a plan to first of all, select, then to remove those documents. 

(Note: as reported in the CIA's 4th edition of it's in-house academic center's book, Getting to Know the President (4th edition, October 2021), after the 2016 election, educating Trump-POTUS in the intelligence part of his presidential duties was always difficult and made additionally so because of Trump's  personally friendly take on Russian interests: 

Briefing Trump presented the Intelligence Community with the most difficult challenges it had ever faced.  Trump had publicly criticized CIA and the outgoing DNI and disparaged the substantive work and integrity of the intelligence agencies. In addition, the controversy over Russian interference in the 2016 election and Trump associates’ contacts with Russian officials heightened tension between the IC and the president-elect. After the inauguration, the briefings soon settled into a pattern: they were held only two or three times a week, Trump did not read the PDB closely if at all, and the briefers had to draw his attention to the most important issues.

(And, why hadn't the Secret Service objected at the time to the document removals? Who selected and loaded the documents into the boxes? Who carried the boxes to waiting trucks? Who eventually 'spilled the beans'? All of these steps, and more, seem beyond the attention span, and even the intelligence of Donald Trump to carry out.)

The logistics of the overall selection, boxing and removal to Mar-a-Lago 'says' involvement of complicit third parties - intelligence-knowledgable, able bodied, complicit third parties who assisted-guided-instructed Trump to select and remove those 27 (now 27+) boxes of classified documents. (Note: just one classified document in a box makes the whole box 'classified' until culled and cleared by appropriate American intelligence bodies.)

IMO, the complicit third party to the removal of boxes of classified materials from the White House to Mar-a-Lago must be ‘friends’, assets or representatives (agents) of foreign states operating against American interests!

The bottom line question that will probably appear from the fog is ‘has Donald Trump indeed been an active asset-in-place operating in the interests of an enemy foreign state, i.e., Russia? And, from what time period before he came into the White House has might Donald Trump have been a foreign intelligence asset?' Will "treason" appear again in Donald Trump's 'interactions' with, and leanings toward Russia?

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE 'VIG': THE FBI'S AUGUST 8, 2022, SEIZURE OF CLASSIFIED FILES FROM THE TRUMP ESTATE AT MAR-A-LAGO (FLORIDA)

The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old,  beginning in 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our focus has been eclectic ...  the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally summarizing the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.                                                                                                                                                                                  -------------------

On August 8, 2022, the FBI sprang, by warrant, an unannounced, early morning search of Donald Trump's estate home ('Mar-a-Lago') at West Palm Beach (Florida). The ostensible FBI objective was (is) to recover 27 boxes of White House documents that Trump had taken with him when he officially vacated the Presidency on January 20, 2021. Those documents may have included classified documents of importance to national security and which Trump would not have been permitted to remove from the White House...had he asked. (He didn't ask and just 'did it' as was, and is his style.) 

WHAT DONALD TRUMP WANTED WITH THOSE FILES MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO 'AUCTION' THEM OFF IN THE DARK GLOBAL MARKETS TO FOREIGN ACTORS AND INTERESTS...(ESPECIALLY TO THE PROXIES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN).

The nature of the FBI's  'Mar-a-Lago' warrant can be made available by Trump but he has chosen to keep it private...but some media 'opinionists' surmise that the recovered documents included highly classified materials closely linked to national security issues.

Trump's 'absconding' with White House documents is just the latest item in the Trump legacy of unpredictable behavior that on the surface is seemingly erratic, but by this blogger is totally in-character with Trump. Trump's behavior in nearly everything he does is with the objective of paying obeisance (and money) to his long-term (decades) debtors who are mostly third party foreign factors, principally Vladimir Putin...even during the Trump presidency.  

To this blogger, it is fascinating to observe the mental contortions the media pundits have subjected their brains to to try to make 'normal' sense of Trump's actions...when Trump is actually a simple read: Trump is in deep debt especially to foreign parties, and in particular has been vitally dependent on the good graces of Russia's dictator, Vladimir Putin to whom Trump has publicly cowered before like a vassal and whose foreign policy interests Trump openly supported during the Trump presidency, even when Putin's foreign policy conflicted with America's. (Trump's vowed goal of disbanding NATO was a primary example of his pro-Putin clash with established American foreign policy.)  

The 'Why' of Trump's favoritism towards Russia as consistent theme is a subject of this blog post.

Trump's tolerant and indeed championing of Russia, and particularly Trump's personal allegiance to Putin is simply a matter of money - owed debts, promised gain and probably Russian blackmail (Kompromat). 

A primary example of foreign power 'kompromat' against Trump is the rumored machinations of the Russian KGB (GRU) to entrap him with seductions by prostitutes ...as written about in Craig Unger's 2021 book, "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery". (This blogger would add 'Treason' to Unger's list of kompromat.)

This blogger figured back in 2016 that Trump’s claim that he was a ‘billionaire’ hid that in although he was partner to several billions of assets, those assets were (are) loaded down with nearly the same level of debt so that their net value is ‘only’ several hundred million$, and that Trump is sole owner of practically none. 

Trump's financial life has been a life of struggle to keep himself (and his family) financially afloat because he is not, nor ever was a good businessman. But he has shown a particular 'talent' for grifting off a carefully tended 'brand'.  

Trump's formula has been to profit off of 'being famous for claiming to be famous' or merely manipulating media exposure - the new 21st century American gimmick for striking it rich.  (Why work at 'it' when one can use the media against itself by manipulating the media to give oneself free advertising, hence generating money-equating media 'views'.) All of this is faux celebrity status created by by pinning on oneself a badge of notoriety or celebrity no matter how vacuous or fake ('Branding.')

 Where it all started: the Trump's learned the trick of building and protecting the 'Trump' brand name which in itself has no more real value than the faux-celebrity real value of the Kardashian 'brand' ...but at least the Kardashians are open about the nature of their 'business' so the public both knows this and relishes the entertainment the Kardashians' extravagant life styles ...thus satisfying the public's apparently 'needed' (addictive?) vicarious alternatives to the American humdrum reality. 

Trump's lifestyle of gold bathroom fixtures, private jets and multiple homes is mostly surface gloss ('bling' in the language of his lesser street-hustler kin).  

Trump has almost perfected living off the ‘Vig’ from creating new deals at 2–5% upfront broker’s fees. (But while that is probably OK in the fast track business world, those ‘skills’ are not appropriate for being President or running a nation…especially the most powerful on the planet, the United States.) Truetehrmp had supported himself and his 'world' of many-layered businesses by pursing the 'bigs' of new deals. But this required him to constantly be on the look-out for new deals, and new patsy's who would fall for the Trump hype.

This is why Trump came into the Presidency in 2016 practically ‘owned’ by Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin — Trump was expecting Putin to complete the authorization for a ‘Moscow-Trump Tower’ deal, inflated from a ‘normal’ 50 million to over 200–400 million $, which would have gifted Trump with a minimum 10 -15 million $ broker’s fee, and similarly given Putin his personal upfront cut of 25–50 million $. (And, all those fees, both to Trump, and to Putin and his Russian oligarch co-grifters, would be deosited into proxie accounts at Alpha Bank in Cyprus.) Whether the project would ever be carried through was unimportant to Trump at the time — it was the upfront signing fee he was counting on to help him pay current debt service and contirnue his living ‘like’a billionaire for several more months until (while he, like a constantly moving shark, created new deals using the leverage of his new power and influence as President throughout the world. 

Maintaining the flow of broker-fees was why Trump flouted (had to flout) traditional boundaries of personal business activities observed by American Presidents. Trump’s life depended on his breaking traditions while President. 

This is why in future presidential elections, America must require complete financial transparency from all who want to run for President.