Why a grand jury looking into secret White House docs at Mar-a-Lago is so serious

[Zeedox]

Opinion | Why Trump could be in serious trouble for what was found at Mar-A-Lago

Grand juries aren't impaneled to do damage assessments but to investigate crimes.

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A sentence in The New York Times story may shed some light on what the Justice Department may have: “The documents in question are believed to have been kept in the residence of the White House before they were boxed up and sent to Mar-a-Lago.” Fifteen boxes of classified documents sitting in the residential wing of the White House doesn’t sound like a mistake to me. That sounds deliberate and less like an error that could be attributed to staff. Virtually every day during my 25 years with the FBI, I handled classified information. It was my experience that staffers, whose job is to know and comply with the rules and regulations for handling such data, don’t deliberately break those rules unless someone at a high level makes them break those rules. That’s why I don’t believe this grand jury is targeting low-level staffers.

Third, perhaps this is bigger than just a mishandling case. As Justice Department investigators examine the documents, they’ll be able to see whether the contents held some value to Trump or those around him and possibly determine whether Trump could benefit from whatever’s in those documents. We mustn’t forget that during Trump’s term, his family members parlayed their relationship with him into personal profit and that while he was president, Trump’s own businesses reportedly raked in $2.4 billion.

 

[Gomez Adams]

I wish I had a nickel for every time they've said something Trump did that was being looked into or investigated was serious. I'd buy a new Cadillac. They've been investigating Trump for far worse than that for over a decade and nothing has ever come of any of it.

It never will.

The most serious investigation into Trump so far had a grand jury seated for nearly two years. Not one single charge ever came of it. That jury was dismissed last month.