Sometimes when you read long pieces from The New York Times or The Washington Post, you can miss some seriously big news. Especially recently, with all the news about Donald Trump and his many crimes, it can be easy to overlook things that are almost worthy of a story themselves. We have information overload to the nth degree.

That’s what we have found with a recent story about Trump and the documents he pilfered from Mar-a-Lago.

On August 23rd, The Washington Post published a story that detailed how the National Archives had spent MONTHS trying to get the classified documents back from Trump, who took them when he left the White House and moved them to his Florida estate in Palm Beach.

WaPo detailed how NARA (The National Archives and Records Administration) first sent letters to Trump’s attorneys back in April, informing them that the FBI would soon examine sensitive documents that Trump had reluctantly returned to the government from Mar-a-Lago three months earlier.

From WaPo:

“In a May 10 letter to Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran that was released Tuesday, acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall outlined weeks of resistance that followed the April 12 email. Trump tried to delay and thwart the FBI’s review of the records he had turned over to the Archives in January, Steidel Wall wrote, despite a finding by the Justice Department that the records included 100 classified documents comprising 700 pages of material, some of it extraordinarily sensitive information related to secret operations and programs with very limited access, on a need-to-know basis.”

So yeah, Trump had taken these top secret and classified documents, and despite NARA giving him months and months to return them…he didn’t. He returned a few boxes, but not the ones that were most important.

Trump is constantly bellyaching on Truth Social how this was unfair and such a surprise…but it wasn’t. Trump knew NARA wanted these documents back and they gave him more than enough time to do so.

And Trump’s people knew this was not good. People in Trump’s inner circle had been raising concern since June that Trump has created legal jeopardy for himself. “Mar-a-Lago is a big problem,” one of the people said, according to the Washington Post.

Further in the article, there was a rather innocuous line that I haven’t seen reported much. It was in regards to when NARA started to look through the boxes taken from Trump. The Washington Post reported, “Instead, when Archives employees began opening up and sifting through the material, they noticed an immediate problem. The boxes arrived without any kind of logs or inventories to describe their content, according to a person familiar with the recovery. Instead, they contained a hodgepodge of documents, including some that didn’t even come from Trump’s time in the White House.”

Did you catch that last part?

“Instead, they contained a hodgepodge of documents, including some that didn’t even come from Trump’s time in the White House.”

What in the world is Trump doing with classified documents from an earlier administration? Were those from Obama? Bush? I have a strong feeling it’s Obama, and I can only imagine why. Trump had such a deep-seated hatred for Obama, I can see him stealing documents that he thought would incriminate or cause trouble for Obama.

Or could he have taken older documents that were concerning things he did in the past?

We will probably never know, since the documents were classified and by the time they are declassified we will probably all be gone. But it’s frightening to think of what Trump was planning, since we know he’s a sociopath who wouldn’t stop at anything to gain power and money.

And a final quote from WaPo that should make you shudder:

“It could not be determined who was involved with packing the boxes at Mar-a-Lago or why some White House documents were not sent to the Archives, though people familiar with the episode said Trump oversaw the process himself — and did so with great secrecy, declining to show some items even to top aides.”

SHUDDER.