(08-12-2022, 08:12 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: According to Trump’s former Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, there are only 6 to 8 people in Trump’s inner circle who would have known about the safe or where these boxes of documents were located. Whoever tipped off the FBI is very close to Trump. It’s speculated that Jared Kushner (no surprise there) to perhaps one of his children dropping the dime.
What makes that so alarming is if someone that close notified the FBI, how secretive and potentially damaging to national security are the documents? 

Regardless if the documents are damning, this may provide the impetus for the RNC to wash their hands of Trump. The motivations are multifaceted. This could be a movie script.

If Trump took top secret nuclear documents as a souvenir and showed them to people, that is pretty wild.  I have to chuckle at that possibility.  It would be very Trump-like.  He likes to show off.  

As for the RNC washing their hands of him, I don't think they have the integrity to do that.  They want his supporters, who are numerous and motivated.

As far as my opinion of the whole affair, I think for the good of the country we need to thread the needle on this.  I don't want to make him a martyr, and even if he's obviously guilty of a serious crime, he'll claim the evidence was planted by the FBI, his supporters will believe him, and throwing him in jail would tear the country apart.  Show the evidence, and let him off the hook.  That's what I would do.

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