not on the cover of time magazine in march of 2009 but he had been hanging fake magazine covers in his golf clubs to make it look likeve he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public, in multiple places all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trump s presidency became relevant again today after the department of justice issued its latestrt court filing in the ongoing courtil battle over accs to the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the filing included this shocking picture, showing some of theow top secret and classifd documents the fbi found during thatdo search. documents clearly labeled top secret, and sci, or sensitive compartmented information and none bear markings that they are declassified which is a t typic part of the declassification process. those documents are also sitting alongside what appears to be drum roll, please, a box with the f
alongside what appears to be drum roll, please, a box with the framed time magazine cover, a real one this time, featuring trump when he was president. now, we don t know for sure why the fbi placed the documents next to that box with the framed time cover. maybe trump s filing system is alphabetical, t for time magazine and t for top secret who can know. what is clear from the photo is donald trump kept some of our nation s most important secrets alongside hisan embarrassingly vain mementos and that s what republicans decided they were going toth focus on in order to defend donald trump. after the photo waser released, the official twitter account for the republicans on the house judiciary committee tweeted, that time magazine cover was a huge national security, eye roll emoji. that time magazine cover, sure.ne never mind the six documents with big bold letters saying
why give them something when there is no legal merit to it. the justice department seems to foresee this late in the filing last night. and i am pair fizing wildly here but if the special mast ser appointed their concern ist really thatap it slows this who thing done, and the review, the director of national intelligence review, to make sure that these documents are not actually are threat to national security, but that review continue, without any further slowdowns. sort they ve asked for a numberf sort a of pre-conditions if a third party is appointed that both parties mutually agree on this person, that this person has,is you know, special classified information access, and that they only review a limited number of these documents. do you think that, i mean who has the upper hand here, in terms of like the bargaining, in terms of who gets to be the special master and what his or her purview is. i think the justice department does something lawyer does all the time which is to ar
that s not the totality. here are some more records we ve found. now we turned everything over. and the next argument is. the president before he left declassified everything. standing order that none of the national security officials that i interviewed knew anything about, a standing order in 2020 that anything he took to his home and residence was automatically declassified. and none of by the way, none of these documents were marked with declassification, none of the documents they found. none of them. the color coded pages actually really sent a chill up my spine, because the color coding, forgive me of leading your good question go ahead. the color coding is exactly what national security officials were warning us reporters who were working on this story, if there is a blue, if there s a red, then i m worried that if i see an orange cover on any of these documents, which is top secret secure compartmented information, if any of those have orange on them, that s a warnin
agent, every national security official who has any contact with that record, this has to be in a locked safe right away. that s the picture, right? and one wonders, not only why he had those documents down there, but who else saw them. i mean these are documents that, you know, from reporting, were stashed in closets, in the desk, we know other lawyers relating to other investigations, were looking for material in and around mar-a-lago, what was so interesting is in the fbi filing, they said that the people tasked with reviewing these documents, some of them were not even cleared to look at this level of secured document. that s how tight these secrets were kept. such an important point. you know, these particular programs, or forgive me, documents, had cover sheets that had a coding, in addition to top secret, in addition to secure compartmented information, the holiest of holy of national security secrets, things that if