May 5, 2024
Outrage builds over new report Trump stashed top secret nuclear documents at Mar-a-Lago

Outrage builds over new report Trump stashed top secret nuclear documents at Mar-a-Lago

Former President Donald Trump was slammed Wednesday after a new report claimed he had super top secret documents describing a foreign country’s nuclear capacities stashed at his Florida resort home.

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen, a lifelong Republican, led a chorus of outrage, calling the new report fresh evidence that Trump poses a “clear and present threat to democracy.”

Ex-federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti called the mere presence of the document at Trump’s home evidence of a grave crime.

“It is among our nation’s most closely held secrets,” Mariotti said on Twitter. “What possible justification is there for taking and holding this document in a country club?”

FBI seized the nuclear documents along with hundreds of classified documents during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, the Washington Post reported late Tuesday.

The paper cited unidentified “people familiar with the search.”

Trump previously vigorously denied previous reports that there were nuclear secrets found at Mar-a-Lago, calling them a “hoax.”

But the ex-president uncharacteristically avoided mentioning the new nuclear report in a rant about the search on his social media platform.

Instead he moaned that they took some of his medical and tax records, which the FBI says were mixed in with highly classified information in boxes in a lightly secured storage room.

“They also improperly took my complete and highly confidential medical file and history, with all the bells and whistles (at least they’ll see that I’m very healthy, an absolutely perfect physical specimen!),” Trump wrote.

Trump’s own former attorney general trashed that complaint, noting that the fact Trump kept personal documents alongside highly classified documents is evidence of mishandling.

“If you find very sensitive documents in Trump’s desk along with his passports, that ties Trump to those documents,” Barr said Wednesday on Fox News.

A day earlier, Barr slammed the federal judge who appointed a special master to comb through the documents.

The conservative former Trump loyalist also came close to predicting Trump will face indictment, praising the government for having “very strong evidence.”

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