Trump Indictment: Docs Moved to Bathroom After Staffer Requested ‘Beautiful Mind’ Papers Be Kept Out of Storage

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The 49-page document weaves a sorted tale of how dozens of document boxes Trump took from the White House during the last days of his presidency were moved around his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida as the importance of managing their location mounted.

A text exchange between two Mar-a-Lago employees discussing the movement of boxes is featured in the indictment and indicates a growing sensitivity for the situation and an awareness of the documents’ importance, with one instructing the other that “anything that’s not the beautiful mind paper boxes can go to storage.”“We can definitely make it work if we move his papers into the lake room?” Trump Employee 2 says in a text appearing on Page 11, kicking off a brief text conversation between the two.Trump Employee 1 responds that there is “still room a little room in the shower where his other stuff is.” “Is it only papers he cares about?” Employee 1 asks. “Theres some other stuff in there that are only papers.

Could that go to storage? Or does he want everything in there on property.”Employee 2 then references the Oscars’ Best Picture-winning 2001 film “A Beautiful Mind,” which told the story of a tortured genius played by Russell Crowe who works on a classified assignment for the U.S.

Department of Defense.“Yes – anything that’s not the beautiful mind paper boxes can definitely go to storage,” Employee 2 says. “Want to take a look at the space and start moving tomorrow AM?” Dozens of document boxes were then moved to a bathroom as depicted in a photograph included in the indictment, as seen above.The text exchange is dated as April 5, 2021, a year before the FBI opened an investigation into the matter, which was followed weeks later by the convening of a federal grand.