Why was former President Donald Trump’s taking of all those secret documents from the White House so egregious? Some of those documents are so secret that less than one hundred people even know what information is on the sensitive ones. Of course that was before Trump would show them to friends and visitors at parties and meetings.

            The following is the chain of events: Trump’s people included many files of confidential documents in the personal boxes to be moved to Mar-a-Lago. Whether the National Archives found some listing or was told by people who knew he had stolen them necessitating contact with his lawyers. Some documents were turned over. The National Archives were told by someone that more existed. Another meeting got more boxes and signed assurances no more existed. They were then told many more existed so the FBI obtained a search warrant and recovered the rest. Trump now wants to know who in his entourage the leak is.

            Before condemning the Justice Department remember a Chinese spy was caught trying to enter Mar-a-Lago last year. How did she know something was there? Was she the first spy to attempt or was she the first to get caught? How many other people from other countries haven’t succeeded or DID and we don’t know? Those documents, especially the nuclear ones, are worth millions which means international gangs might sell the pictures of those unguarded documents. Of course Trump had been showing them to many people for his ego but there are many financial possibilities for him to use them.

            We have locked many people up for doing less with documents of less importance. As the Attorney General said “No one is above the law.”