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Former President Donald Trump’s recent startling boast about the secret folders he removed from the White House as “cool keepsakes” is “incriminating evidence from heaven,” a former military prosecutor said Sunday.
Trump admitted in a post to Truth Social last week that he kept “hundreds of folders” labeled “confidential” or “classified,” but claimed he didn’t keep the documents they kept.
They were a “cool keepsake,” he said.
Trump unfoundedly insinuated that the “Gestapo” — apparently the FBI agents who collected actual classified documents from Mar-a-Lago last year, according to photographic evidence — may have counted the empty folders as documents.
Authorities recovered 300 pages of classified documents, 48 empty folders marked as classified material, and 42 folders that once contained documents that were supposed to be “returned”.[ed] to staff secretary/military aide,” according to an initial inventory, The New York Times reported.
MSNBC host Katie Phang on Sunday referred to Trump’s “memento” boast, saying, “We know that Donald Trump … is his own worst enemy. He can’t shut up.”
Phang’s guest, former Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, called Trump’s boastful post “incriminating evidence from heaven for prosecutors … Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating these precise crimes, the secret documents at Mar-a-Lago.”
Kirschner noted that “everything” Trump says and “everything he posts is what we call a party opponent confession. It’s not hearsay. it comes in as incriminating information.”
Trump says, “On the one hand, the FBI planted [classified documents]; on the other hand, okay, if they are there, I released them with my mind. On the next post, well, you know, it was just a bunch of empty folders, [which] which we know is not true,” Kirschner noted.
“All this can play a certain segment of it [Trump’s political] base,” he added. “You know who else won’t play? When prosecutors put it all together and present it to 12 people in the jury box. It won’t play in front of a jury,” Kirschner said.
Late last September, a flyer clearly labeled “Classified” was found in a bar in the Trump Tower lobby on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. A “Situation Room” brochure marked “unclassified FOUO” – meaning “for official use only” was displayed next to the “Classified” folder.
FOUO information “should be handled in a manner that ensures no unauthorized access,” according to federal guidelines. Former FBI official Peter Strzok pointed out in a tweet that a bar “certainly not an official use.”
Here’s what Kirschner had to say in his interview:
