I'm reading the search inventory so you don't have to
It’s a list of everything seized at Mar a Lago pursuant to the search warrant. It lists a total of 28 items, mostly unmarked boxes and a few odd documents like a copy of Roger Stone’s pardon. It also lists the following items of more than casual interest:
Various Classified TS/SCI documents
Miscellaneous Secret Documents
Miscellaneous Secret Documents
Miscellaneous Top Secret Documents
Miscellaneous Confidential Documents
Miscellaneous Secret Documents
Confidential Document
Miscellaneous Secret Documents
Miscellaneous Confidential Documents
Miscellaneous Top Secret Documents
Miscellaneous Top Secret Documents
That’s a lot of top secret government documents to be kept in an unsecure storage room in a beach club with a membership open to the public. You will recall that not long after Trump was elected, there was an arrest of a woman who was charged as a spy for either China or Taiwan, can’t remember which, who was attempting to enter Mar a Lago for a paid event. Trump’s home in Palm Beach was less secure than my coat closet, and yet it was stuffed with secret, top secret, and ultra top secret national security information. The documents the FBI seized were not found mounted and framed and hanging on the wall as souvenirs.
Gee, I wonder why Trump took so many national security secrets with him to Florida?
Curious minds want to know. Stay tuned.
He took the material for two fundamental reasons.
First, as with everything he has ever done, he planned on making a buck or more off them with the leverage he might have. Leverage?
Second, somewhere in these documents is information which will expose him to criminal prosecution. All the more reason to hide it or flush it down a toilet.
Protection.
What we all must be aware of is a lot of Top Secret information has been gathered over the years with human intelligence. If a foreign power could gain access to this information they can reverse engineer it to learn how we got it. That could cost lives and destroy intelligence sources for the future.
It is important to remember that at a fundamental level FPOTUS is no different from a soldier who takes home and keeps night vision goggles or other government property issued to him. Those guys get prosecuted.