Did a witness before the J6 Committee inadvertently mention the "boxes" at MAL...?

[kentuck]

Is that how the DOJ came into possession of the information?

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Committee began to turn over their files to the DOJ?

Or was it a "snitch", a "rat", inside the Trump cabal that turned on him and went to the DOJ?

Who would have known where the boxes were stored at the Trump compound? Most family members probably would have known about them. Perhaps the Secret Service detail assigned to guard the place may have known?

But would any of his advisers, such as Mark Meadows or Cassidy Hutchinson, have known about the classified material stored in his basement?

Have there been any informed opinions about this?

[thomski64]

1. did Eva Braun...

..decide to "be best" ??

[kentuck]

2. Interesting theory.

Maybe they had a spat?

[gab13by13]

3. The narrative shouldn't be how the FBI knew,

the narrative should be that Trump did not turn over all of the classified documents he possessed.

If the Lincoln Project wants to play with Trump's mind and make him paranoid that's fine with me but that is not and should not be the story.

After the FBI search, immediately the right wing propaganda machine began attacking the FBI, began attacking Merrick Garland to deflect from Trump's crimes.

Donald Trump stole classified documents some of which were so classified the public will never know what they were. That should be the narrative.

If we feel the need to speculate further then we can speculate why Trump stole the documents.

[kentuck]

6. By not turning over all the classified documents when first asked...?

Would that be considered obstruction of justice?

[elias7]

10. Agreed. What is intriguing is the "he who must not be named" type of intelligence

What could be the nature of intelligence so sensitive that it cannot even be referred to?

Extraterrestrial aliens? Assassination plots? I just can’t imagine what can’t even be mentioned in broad terms.

[gab13by13]

13. How about the names of overseas spies?

How much money could Trump get from selling those documents?

[elias7]

20. Right, but I don't see a problem saying, "classified info re foreign assets"

They are saying that there are things whose category cannot even be revealed. What could that be?

[Bayard]

18. For one thing,

Lists of our operatives in foreign countries. Didn't he blurt that out previously?

[elias7]

21. But we can say "list of operatives in foreign countries"

The existence of spies not really a secret; every spy novel has them. That category is not unmentionable.

I want to know what kind of things cannot be said.

[Whiskeytide]

11. Yep. "Who ratted me out" is the response of a Mafia boss. n/t

[Baggies]

4. There was a report that someone working at his home was a government plant.

I don’t know how accurate that report is.

[dclarston13]

8. Confidential Informant is the FBI term

I would imagine there are several CIs in the org and the castle. But I think this one probably came from the secret service trying to save their reputation. I think they were/are compromised and that will also come out soon. Biden changed his detail when he came onboard, I believe Harris did too.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Secret Service

They have access to the Family Only Do Not Enter I Really Mean Do Not Enter That Room parts of the Plastic Barbarian Moron Dream Dump Castle and Document Crematorium, Merde-di-Lardo.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. NARA knew (and needed to verify/catalog) and the media has footage as things were removed

You can actually go back in time to that week after J6 and look at the news stories -

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/trump-bidens-white-house-move/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/melania-trump-future/index.html


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/moving-day-approaching-trump-white-house-n1254170




https://apnews.com/article/biden-inauguration-ap-top-news-coronavirus-pandemic-14eb026817445300ed427a6c1af66d61

[2naSalit]

14. Thanks for posting!

These images have been on my mind since the news of the search.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. You're welcome

I know back then after J6 and the refusal to concede, let alone attend the inauguration, everyone was "watching" for the moving to start and it did finally happen. What was captured was the "bigger, more prominent" moving of stuff although apparently the ex-FLOTUS had already been "moving" stuff for a couple months by then (per one of the articles)!

[kentuck]

16. Man, he hated moving!

He thought he was going to be there forever.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Everyone certainly realized that

It had gotten down to the wire because Biden was gearing up to get the "deep cleaning" contracts in place and underway in order to sanitize the place! Hopefully they swept every nook and cranny for listening devices too.

ETA - I remember posting in threads about this (the fumigation)- https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/white-house-clean-trump-biden/index.html

[FakeNoose]

9. Maybe it was Cassidy Hutchinson?

Cassidy was one of the WH employees who were on the list to be retained for work at Chump's office at Mar-A-Lago. There were about 6 employees on government payroll to work for him, once he left the White House.

I don't know how long Cassidy actually did remain with the "team." She may have quit immediately after January 6th, as she says. Maybe she stayed in Washington when the rest of them left for Florida. However there's a good chance she was involved in packing up the Eyes Only documents that were secretly removed before he left.

I think Cassidy was THE source, or at least one of the sources. She gave a lot of info to the J-6 committee that was kept down low, not everything was revealed in the televised version.

[brooklynite]

12. Of course not; they've been arguing over the files for more than a year.

[kentuck]

15. You are right.

That was about the time the DOJ decided to not prosecute the contempt of Congress charge against Mark Meadows.

[malaise]

22. Possibly - the J6 Committee may not have played everything on tape

for moments like this

[liberaltrucker]

23. Like Alexander Butterfield inadvertently mentioned the "tapes"?