Donald Trump is a [classified] terrorist
Sources have revealed that the FBI has asked if Donald Trump has stored classified documents at Trump Tower and other properties owned by him. The belief is that he has. If true, the implications are staggering, and you can probably expect more subpoenas and eventual search warrants.
Try to get your head around it: the man who built his successful presidential bid on phoney outrage over Hillary Clinton’s minor indiscretion in taking classified work home with her so she could do her job more effectively has stolen thousands of classified documents. He is papering the country with them, squirrelling them away in one Trump hidey-hole after another.
The lack of outrage, let alone comment, from Republicans who were once full of sulphurous epithets for Hillary would be laughable if it weren’t for one thing. Hypocrisy has become so much a part of Republican stock-in-trade that we hardly notice it any more. That is too sad for words.
Hillary Clinton’s minor misuse of classified protocol caused no harm, not even potential harm. It turns out that the intelligence she conceivably compromised was of a very low level and wouldn’t have interested any enemy of America — foreign or domestic. What Trump has, on the other hand, is extremely dangerous stuff, including documents that could compromise the identities of field agents or the nuclear secrets of allies or America’s protocols during a nuclear war.
In short, Donald Trump — a former president of the United States — has become what ex-prosecutor Glenn Kirschner referrs to as a “classified documents terrorist.” He is holding these documents against the will of the American people and is keeping us in suspense about what he intends doing with them. You can almost guarantee by now that he’s not holding them as mere souvenirs. Trump wants to use them for some nefarious purpose.
What could that purpose be? Certainly he knows what he has is worth millions, possibly billions, to his friends in Russia, Saudi Arabia or North Korea. He could also be holding them as bargaining chips against prosecution. But whatever the reason, it has to be more compelling than the mere naive suggestion that they have sentimental value. After all, what sentimental value could nuclear secrets or the identity of a mole in the Kremlin possibly have? Why does he keep them in dozens of sealed boxes stored in various properties?
I’ve had my own private suspected reason for Trump’s document theft for some time now. I think this is the time to reveal it to you. Yes, he could be using them as a get-out-of-jail-free card, which almost certainly won’t work. Or he intends to sell them to the highest bidder. But I think an even bigger motive is Donald Trump hates America. He is full of fury at America because America rejected him and didn’t re-elect him, and he wants to get even. He wants to inflict harm, possibly fatal harm, on America and its people.
If you think this is ludicrous it’s because you probably never had to deal with a narcissist. A narcissist will betray anyone and anything he thinks has betrayed him. Trump is the ultimate narcissist in this way. If America doesn’t give him his job back, Trump will want to destroy her.
Trump tips his hand by darkly hinting at civil war and death for Mitch McConnell and other telltale signs that he is mounting an all or nothing desparate last bid for re-election. Trump wants his country to fight to the death to defend him. Failure means America doesn’t deserve to live. We’ve seen this kind of fanatical narcissism before. One of Hitler’s final orders to Albert Speer was to destroy Germany for Germany’s failure to win the war. Trump is just such a narcissist.
This is yet another reason why Trump must go to prison. Anything less will send a message that what Trump did can be repeated. Anything less could also make it possible for Trump to harm us in some savage way. And next time the reins of power could be seized by a much smarter, far more charismatic tyrant if we don’t make it clear that such people will be imprisoned.
We therefore cannot afford to lose. Failure is not an option. Trump must go to prison. And, as ever, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, stay safe.
Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.