Why Did Trump Take Documents to Mar-a-Lago?

All of a sudden, lots of Trump’s friends are making noises about how he’s unfit to run again, because no matter how he explains it, even the most steadfast members of the MAGA cabal have difficulty buying the idea that any American from President on down should be sitting in his home surrounded by documents that have been judged to contain classified information and might, if leaked, harm the United States.

So, Trump can bitch and moan about how his passports were stolen and how the FBI actually brought sensitive materials into his house before they then took them out. Or he can say that this is just the next chapter in the ‘get Trump’ witch hunt that has been going on since 2016.

But the bottom line is that Trump’s star is beginning to fade, and when you stop and think about, the FBI raid is a perfect excuse for him to withdraw from the 2024 race and keep all money he’s raised for himself.

On the other hand, there may be a perfectly plausible reason why those cartons of documents were sitting on his basement floor and why from his point of view removing them from the White House didn’t mean he did anything wrong.

Remember when Alex Butterfield appeared before the Watergate Committee on July 13, 1973, and disclosed the existence of the White House tapes? I happened to be watching the hearing…