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Trump May Have Sold U.S. Secrets And Must Be Arrested, Legal Analyst Argues
- By The Financial District
- Sep 6, 2022
- 2 min read
Legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said that former President Donald Trump might have sold classified documents that were missing from dozens of empty folders retrieved by FBI agents who searched Mar-A-Lago last month, Fatma Khaled reported for Newsweek.
Photo Insert: Trump has repeatedly said that he didn't do anything wrong by keeping those documents, while his office said that he had a "standing order" to declassify those documents.
"The most reasonable inference is that Donald Trump disposed of those classified documents after unlawfully taking them from the White House," Kirschner said in a video posted on YouTube.
"To what purpose did he put them? Did he sell them to America's adversaries? Did he use them to blackmail people? Did he use them to leverage a favorable business deal in some country or another? We don't know yet." He said Trump must be arrested promptly.
Friday's unsealed inventory list, which showed what the FBI retrieved during their search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, included a total of 48 empty folders with "classified" banners. The inventory list also included empty folders labeled "Return to Staff Secretary/ Military Aide."
Kirschner added: "I suspect we will learn exactly what Donald Trump did with those classified and military documents. But one thing I do know...is there is no legitimate argument. There is no persuasive argument. There is no compelling argument against arresting Donald Trump promptly."
Kirschner said in a tweet on Friday that "things just went from bad to worse to unfathomably dangerous" after the empty classified folders were found.
Meanwhile, former US attorney Harry Litman tweeted that the ex-president might have "rifled through the classified docs to see what he had. This undoes the image of just scooping them up along w/ shirts and M&Ms and keeping them in boxes."
Trump has repeatedly said that he didn't do anything wrong by keeping those documents, while his office said that he had a "standing order" to declassify those documents, an explanation that former Department of Justice (DOJ) official Mary McCord doubted, saying that he had no authority to do so after leaving office, according to Reuters.
