Posted on 06/05/2023 6:34:55 PM PDT by bitt
The draining of a swimming pool at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort that led to the flooding of a computer server room last October has reportedly caught the attention of prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith.
At least one witness has been asked about the server room flood by prosecutors investigating Trump’s handling of classified material, according to a CNN report on Monday.
The flooded room on the property held video logs for the Palm Beach, Fla., club, according to the report.
The videos may show the movement of boxes of classified documents that Trump, 76, held onto after his presidency.
It’s unclear if prosecutors have established whether the flooding of the server room was intentional or an accident.
A spokesman for Trump did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The incident occurred about two months after the FBI’s August 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago during which agents found hundreds of classified documents inside Trump’s private club and residence.
A witness reportedly told prosecutors that the IT equipment in the flooded room was not damaged, according to CNN.
The news outlet also reports that the pool draining incident and other actions by Trump’s employees during the Justice Department’s investigation may factor into a possible obstruction conspiracy case.
The report notes that the maintenance worker responsible for draining the pool also helped Trump aide Walt Nauta move boxes of classified documents around the former president’s estate before the FBI raid.
In May, investigators interviewed two Trump Organization executives – Matthew Calamari Sr. and his son Matthew Calamari Jr. – about the handling of surveillance footage from Mar-a–Lago.
The father-son pair are believed to have been asked questions about the Trump Organization’s handling of footage that reportedly captured Nauta and the maintenance worker moving boxes out of a storage
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branches of government, including US presidents, have frequently leaked classified information to journalists.[4][page needed][5][6][7]
Congress has repeatedly resisted or failed to pass a law that generally outlaws disclosing classified information. Most espionage law criminalizes only national defense information; only a jury can decide if a given document meets that criterion, and judges have repeatedly said that being “classified” does not necessarily make information become related to the “national defense”.[8][9]
Furthermore, by law, information may not be classified merely because it would be embarrassing or to cover illegal activity; information may be classified only to protect national security objectives.[10]
“A witness reportedly told prosecutors that the IT equipment in the flooded room was not damaged, according to CNN.”
So nothing was damaged and nothing was lost... Must be a crime because Muh obstruction...
I’m waiting for the headline. “President Trump’s Plumbers Play Watergate Plumbers’ Pranks.”
Good point.
All these leaks about Mar-a-Lago yet the press has no more information on the investigation of that Chinese gal who was caught trying to get in, or the leftwing nut who tried to get in by boat, etc.
All this excitement over a document that pertained to Iran.
Trump should have known better.
Only bleach and sandpaper are approved.
As for cell phones, hammers are best...
Nuke it from orbit!
when ever I see someone criticizing Trump and accusing him of crimes I discover that when you look into them they show all the signs of being involved in a criminal endever using the power of government or they are idiots that have no clue to the issues they bring up.
OK, in violation of FR tradition I read the article, (waste of time). The article claims, without proof, that the boxes moved held classified documents and inferred that Trump personally ordered them moved.
Nothing of the sort was proved in the story. It is all speculation. Are we to believe that Trump personally manages every detail of his living quarters? He might, emphasis on might, tell someone to get some boxes out of his office since he was done with them but it is doubtful that he would micro-manage who is to do it and where they are to be stored.
Next, we are suppose to believe that Trump ordered the pool to be drained and to be sure that it floods the IT room. The draining of the pool would be the decision of the property manager, not the resort owner.
Stupid article written to try to infer nefarious actions Trump when none are evident.
With these fools, it’s risky to even mention something like
that.
If the owner’s last name was Clinton, most of you would not be so dismissive of this “accident”.
So you’re a clinton-lover as well as a biden-lover?
I guess you are right, though. We would be more suspicious.
Because Clintons have dozens of dead bodies in their wake. Do you think that makes a difference?
What is really scary, I trust Trump with classified documents more than I trust the government or National Archives.
Why?
because as any business person knows, keeping trade secrets or marketing plans until execution is of utmost importance.
The Deep State fears those documents in the hands of Trump. Trump essentially knows too much. None of this ends with those documents.
Ask yourself this: If it was a RINO, like Bush or McCain, would you be so dismissive of the story?
No, you would not.
I do not think Trump would order something like this, but he has not always surrounded himself with people of good judgement.
The stuff got wet - so he wiped it - with a cloth.
LOL, that’s a good one.
Georgias State Farm arena had a flood on election day 2020. This stuff happens.
You think he picks his pool guy?
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If the owner’s last name was Clinton, most of you would not be so dismissive of this “accident”.
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Hoaxes cooked up by Hillary leading to your country spying on Trump and turning him into public enemy number one since 2015, has consequences..
HA! The first thing that came to my mind. Just had to shut down ballot counting due to what was later described as being a toilet overflow. Laughable, as many of us did when we heard about the “flood” my husband and I looked at each other election night, said, “here we go” and knew it was over.
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