Re: What Comes After the Search Warrant? - The Atlantic

[heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 9:56 AM Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg> wrote:
> from electoral-vote.com:
>
> Maybe, instead of looking for leverage with foreign governments,
> Trump was looking for leverage with... the U.S. government. By the
> time he left Washington, he knew he was potentially in hot water.
> Perhaps the stolen materials were his ace in the hole, and he
> planned to use them as a form of blackmail. In other words,
> something along the lines of "Drop all the charges against me, or
> else the Iranians will learn everything about the U.S. nuclear
> arsenal." We are well aware that this would be a really stupid plan,
> but when has that ever stopped The Donald?
>
> A third possibility is that Trump, who always loved the trappings of
> the presidency much more than the job itself, kept the materials in
> order to have something to show off to visitors. He might casually
> pull a Top Secret document from a safe when, say, the MyPillow guy
> came for a visit, and say "Oh, that? Just the location of all the
> nuclear devices on the Eastern seaboard. No big deal." This would be
> very odd, but it's also entirely plausible, we think.