Donald
Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America (USA), was
in the habit of grabbing intelligence documents, according to John Bolton, a
national security advisor in the Trump Administration-turned-ardent Trump
critic. Bolton made the comment during an interview, NBC News reported. “God
knows what he (Trump) did with it,” Bolton said.

Following
the 2020 Presidential elections, his vow to “never concede” and the Capitol
riots, Donald Trump was in a hurry to vacate the White House. Government movers
reportedly tossed documents and other items into banker boxes and sent them to
a storage room at Trump’s residence in Florida – Mar-a-Lago.

Two sources
with knowledge of how the documents were moved told NBC News that things were
shipped along with things previously packed by Donald Trump, sometimes
erratically so.

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In that
room in Mar-a-Lago, the boxes contained documents with sensitive material that
the federal government seems to consider critical to national security. It was
to retrieve these documents that FBI agents took the unprecedented step of
executing a search warrant at the home of a former president to seize them.

The records
contained 11 sets of classified documents, including some labelled ‘secret’ and
others labelled ‘top secret’, according to a property receipt from the search.

However,
the question before law enforcement agencies is that whether Trump knew that he
had moved with classified documents.

People who
worked with the Trump at the White House told NBC News that he was known for
his ad-hoc sorting of records. He was known to rip up records that aides would
have to retrieve from trash cans or from the floor and tape back together,
multiple reports claim.

The
criminal investigation against Donald Trump on how sensitive records moved from
the White House to Mar-a-Lago is panning out to be a story on his impulsive
instincts and disregard for established rules or norms that repeatedly created
trouble for him in the White House.

Trump is
facing three criminal investigations: the records case, the probe concerning
his role in the attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election,
and his effort to nullify Biden’s victory in Georgia, a crucial swing state.