Former aides say he simply kept the sensitive records because he saw them as 'mine'. Read more at straitstimes.com.
accusing former US President Donald Trump of holding onto hundreds of classified documents and then obstructing the US government’s efforts to retrieve them, one mystery remains: Why did he take them and fight so hard to keep them?
In a similar fashion, the indictment depicts Trump as trying to stop a lawyer he hired to help him search Mar-a-Lago for any classified material still in his possession from actually going through the records he kept at the property. Several former aides and advisers to Trump have long made the argument that he simply kept the sensitive records because he saw them as “mine,” and because he likes acquiring trophies that he can show off, whatever form those trophies may take.
He treated the nation’s secrets similarly while in office. Trump shared highly classified intelligence during an Oval Office meeting in 2017 with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister. He posted a classified photo on Twitter in 2019 of a failed Iranian rocket launch, telling senior aides who wanted to remove the classification markings that that was the “sexy part”.
“I think it’s much more likely they’re a trophy that he walks around and says, ‘Look, I’ve got this,’” Mr Christie, who is now campaigning for president against Trump in the Republican primary, told ABC News. “I’ve got this classified document or that, because remember something: He can’t believe he’s not president.”
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