The big story late this week was the belief of the Department of Justice that former president Donald Trump has not turned over all the classified documents he took from the White House way back in January, 2021 before President Biden moved in. Whoa, big surprise, huh? Who woulda thunk that the man who had top secret documents stored in cardboard boxes in the basement of Mar a Lago, and in white file boxes used when you’re moving, would have failed to turn over a final stash of secrets he’s still hiding somewhere?
But nobody to my knowledge has gone back and had a look at a video that was taken on May 8 of this year by London’s Daily Mail when Trump left Mar a Lago and moved his household, lock stock and barrel, to Bedminster. Someone tipped off the Daily Mail that Trump had always moved out of Mar a Lago for the summer season on Mothers Day, so the paper sent a video crew out to a private airport and filmed the entire procedure of Trump’s armored SUV’s arriving, Trump getting out and boarding a quite large private jet, and aides unloading four white file boxes from one of Trump’s SUV’s and loading them into the plane that carried him to New Jersey to a private airport near Bedminster. Here is a screen capture from the video of Trump boarding the plane:
Here is a screen capture of the first box being delivered by a male aide. Box is visible beneath plane’s wing:
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