'Nonsensical': Analyst shreds new MAGA's newest theory about Trump's classified documents
Former President Donald Trump's supporters are out with a bizarre new "nonsensical theory" about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case that doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny, wrote the Washington Post's Philip Bump on Tuesday.
"There is a rumor rumbling around the right-wing media universe in which Biden and officials in his administration are accused of framing Trump on the Florida allegations. And, as is often the case with rumors that course through that universe, the claim being made is obviously not true," wrote Bump. "This one was first elevated by Julie Kelly, a right-wing commentator whose efforts generally focus on defenses of individuals charged with participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. On Saturday morning, she shared a snippet of a court filing on social media."
The court filing in question showed that an unidentified individual who referenced "six pallets" of boxes shipped to Trump by the General Services Administration (GSA), and another person who recalled seeing them and that they matched the description of the boxes of classified documents seized by the FBI.
“So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago,” wrote Kelly. “Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with ‘classified markings.’"
This theory was immediately picked up by a number of MAGA commentators like far-right filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, noticeable for his "2,000 Mules" documentary incorrectly alleging evidence of voter fraud in 2020. And Trump himself repeated it, telling reporters at the courthouse, “You probably saw last night that Jack Smith got caught with his hand in the cookie jar ... It was released late last night, and it’s a big story. The documents case is a hoax created by them for election interference purposes."
This is completely false, argued Bump.
While boxes of documents were shipped from a GSA office building to Mar-a-Lago, those boxes were left at the GSA office by Trump, after his team worked out of there office for several months, Bump writes.
Trump's team was just packing up boxes Trump left at a GSA office and sending them on to Mar-a-Lago, Bump reports. Furthermore, it's not clear these are the same boxes that contained the classified documents.
"There’s no smoking gun related to the material shipped from Trump’s Crystal City office to Mar-a-Lago," concluded Bump. "It’s just another unverified rumor that coursed through the right-wing narrative universe before reality could catch up."