(TownHall) Palace intrigue has been the week’s topic of discussion following the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. Federal agents arrived on the premises on August 8 to search for reported classified materials under the Presidential Records Act. The National Archives was hyperventilating over these missing documents, with a cocktail napkin possibly being not just one of the sources of heartburn for the agency but one of the reasons why FBI agents ransacked the former president’s home. In January, Mar-a-Lago did send back some 15 boxes which included these napkins, dinner menus, and other items that one could only describe as souvenirs of the first Trump presidency.
Yet, it seems that classified nuclear secrets were one of the top items on the FBI’s list. Whether these documents were recovered remains to be seen, and the affidavit for the raid remains under seal. I will be the mortgage that none of these items were there. Still, federal agents did seize documents that probably shouldn’t have been taken, like Trump’s passports and records protected by executive and attorney-client privilege.
As the debate about records and their classification status rages, who snitched on the president? Spencer wrote about an informant within Trump’s circle who was privy to the activities of the former president. Who could it be? Was it Ivanka? Yes, some people have posited that Trump’s daughter backstabbed him (via The Guardian):
Michael Cohen? I don’t need to say more on the unreliability of that subject.
