Saturday, August 13, 2022

Oh, Chief Wapo Make a Boo-Boo*

...a deeply serious probe of whether the ex-president had endangered national security by hoarding highly classified documents, some potentially related to nuclear weapons.

*I think. 

A Washington Post report that the FBI was seeking documents related to nuclear weapons had also sent a ripple through Trump’s support network.

The former president kept up a steady stream of angry online statements, mixing outright denials with near-admissions that he had indeed been holding sensitive material about nuclear weapons.

“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified,” Trump said in a statement Friday that was quickly debunked by the National Archives, which said it controls all of Obama’s papers.

Trump went on to speculate baselessly: “How many of them pertained to nuclear?” he asked. "Word is, lots!”   

That is pretty close to an admission. The issue with regard to the nuke report, however, is whether Wapo's sources were reliable and their info corroborated. There were two sources, as the undersigned recalls. It was ominous to me even that night that the story was published that no other major outlet got the information independently--and to this day nobody else has confirmed it.