Trump Wanted to Trade Maralago Documents For Info On 2016 Election Probe- NYT
This buffoon was once president of the United States, believe it or not.
per the NYT
...Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on former President Donald J. Trump to return boxes of records he had taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago club, he came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown: cut a deal.
Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had been wronged by the F.B.I. investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims.
In exchange for those documents, Mr. Trump told advisers, he would return to the National Archives the boxes of material he had taken to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Trump’s aides never pursued the idea. But the episode is one in a series that demonstrates how Mr. Trump spent a year and a half deflecting, delaying and sometimes leading aides to dissemble when it came to demands from the National Archives and ultimately the Justice Department to return the material he had taken, interviews and documents show....
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/trump-documents-lawyers.html
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He not only wants to extort foreign governments, now we learn he wanted to extort his own American government.
The sooner this fool sees the inside of a prison cell the better.