Eric Trump has been defending his father, former President Donald Trump over the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. The younger Trump, referring to a photo shared by the Department of Justice that showed some of the classified documents strewn all over the floor of his father’s home, told Fox News on Tuesday:

“These pictures — you think my father happened to just leave documents all over his office floor?” he said. “I can tell you my father is a very, very neat guy. He doesn’t leave documents staged all over an office floor.”

Eric’s dad was not happy about that photo either, firing off a battery of Truth Social posts about it last week, Insider reports.

“There seems to be confusion as to ‘the picture’ where documents were sloppily thrown on the floor and then released photographically for the world to see, as if that’s what the FBI found when they broke into my house. Wrong!” Trump complained.

Of course, it’s not unusual for Trump to be this dramatic, but the fact is, agents entered Mar-a-Lago with a search warrant that was legally executed by the FBI. Trump left that little fact out.

And maybe I’m just being petty, but any of the times I’ve tried to access his posts on Truth Social, I get “Access Denied.” I’m guessing because I live in a brown country. That would be par for Trump’s course. If any of his posts do show up here, it’s due to the diligent efforts of my boss.

But Trump was not done with his complaining about the FBI.

“They took them (the documents) out of cartons and spread them around on the carpet, making it look like a big ‘find’ for them,” Trump fumed. “They dropped them, not me — Very deceiving…”

Yeah, well Trump knows a thing or two about deceiving people, now doesn’t he?

In another post Trump, still fuming, denounced the way the documents were strewn “haphazardly all over the floor,” he wrote. “Perhaps pretending it was me that did it!”

But the release of this DOJ photo stems, in part, from a court filing about the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search. That photo shows several folders on the floor emblazoned with the phrase “top secret” next to redacted letters all bearing a White House letterhead. Strangely enough, there was also a framed copy of a rather unflattering 2019 Time Magazine cover. It’s anyone’s guess why Trump would keep that since he’s allergic to criticism.

FBI agents successfully seized 11 boxes of classified documents during their search earlier this month, and while several of the documents were marked “top secret” others may have focused on nuclear weapons, The Washington Post reports. The search warrant itself states that the reason for the search is that the DOJ is trying to determine whether Trump violated any of three federal laws, not the least of which is the Espionage Act — by keeping the documents at his residence.

Some of these seized files were so highly sensitive, the DOJ reports, those FBI agents and DOJ attorneys involved in the search needed additional clearances before looking at the documents. Now a report by The Washington Post has found that some documents retrieved from Trump’s residence contained information about one country’s nuclear defenses.

So Trump may or may not be guilty of sloth but he is guilty of deception. To my mind, that’s a deadlier sin than sloth.

WATCH:

Eric Trump: My father is a very very neat guy. He doesn’t leave documents staged all over an office floor. pic.twitter.com/LLv7nf1Dfu

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 7, 2022