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ck4829

(35,077 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 07:09 PM Jun 2019

Is there some information kept at Mar-a-Lago that shouldn't be there?

Federal prosecutors disclosed this week they are developing a potential national security case against Yujing Zhang, the 33-year-old Chinese woman charged with unlawfully entering Mar-a-Lago with a stash of electronic equipment.

They asked a federal judge to allow them to file “classified information” under seal without the public — or the defendant — seeing it. If the motion is granted, prosecutors will present the evidence directly to the federal judge in Zhang’s trespassing case during a private, closed meeting in the judge’s chambers.

The prosecution’s motion indicates that she is a focus of a widening U.S. probe of possible Chinese espionage and suggests that authorities have evidence she was likely not simply a “bumbling tourist” who accidentally found her way into President Donald Trump’s private estate in Palm Beach.

The motion by a counterintelligence prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office suggests that authorities have relevant classified evidence that could pose a risk to national security should anyone — including Zhang — ever see it.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article231465918.html#storylink=cpy

I dunno, sounds like someone is trying to cover their rear...

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Is there some information kept at Mar-a-Lago that shouldn't be there? (Original Post) ck4829 Jun 2019 OP
Like maybe tax records or the infamous national enquirer safe of dirt? Irishxs Jun 2019 #1
Mel's pre-nup? fierywoman Jun 2019 #2
K&R UTUSN Jun 2019 #3
Anywhere the president goes, Igel Jun 2019 #4
He shouldn't be president if he can't properly handle that classified information following him ck4829 Jun 2019 #5

Igel

(35,317 posts)
4. Anywhere the president goes,
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:29 PM
Jun 2019

classified information follows. It's not a new thing. When Bush was clearing brush in Texas, there was a portion of the house retrofitted with some sophisticated communications and security gear so it could function as the "western white house" because if anything happens, the president needs to have access to the same extent and kind of information that he'd have in DC.

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
5. He shouldn't be president if he can't properly handle that classified information following him
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:31 PM
Jun 2019

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