Timeline of Trump’s Stolen Intelligence
The DOJ Filing
Trump’s attorneys filed a motion for “Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief” on August 22nd, fourteen days after a legal search of the resort where Trump now lives. As predicted by legal experts, the motion opened the door for the Department of Justice to file a response that could provide more details of the alleged crimes. Here are the details, all of which are taken from the DOJ filing.
2021
The National Archives realized that Presidential Records were missing and worked throughout 2021 to obtain those records voluntarily from Trump. Multiple letters from Archives officials are attached to the filing as proof.
January 2022
After extensive efforts, an initial 15 boxes of records were returned to the National Archives. At this time, Trump did not assert executive privilege, nor did he make any reference to the records’ classification status.
February 2022
When the National Archives reviewed the materials in those 15 boxes, they identified items related to classified national security — the kinds of documents that must be stored and viewed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or SCIF (pronounced SKIFF). The highly classified records were unfoldered, scattered among…