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

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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?