Ballrooms, bathrooms, and storage closets: Trump indictment explained

Jun 09, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    98% Extremely Conservative

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  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"In a text message, a Trump employee asked another employee about the possibility of moving boxes from business center to storage, so staff could use the business center as an office."
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14% Conservative
"From January 20 to March 15, 2021 some of Trump's boxes were stored in Mar-a-Lago's White and Gold Ballroom, where this evidence photo shows them stacked on the ballroom's stageTrump was charged alongside Walt Nauta (above), an aide and close adviser who prosecutors say ferried boxes of classified information around Mar-a-LagoMarch 2021For reasons unspecified in the indictment, Nauta and other employees moved Trump's boxes from the ballroom to the business center at the Mar-a-Lago Club."
Positive
12% Conservative
"From January 20 to March 15, 2021 some of Trump's boxes were stored in Mar-a-Lago's White and Gold Ballroom, where this evidence photo shows them stacked on the ballroom's stageTrump was charged alongside Walt Nauta (above), an aide and close adviser who prosecutors say ferried boxes of classified information around Mar-a-LagoMarch 2021For reasons unspecified in the indictment, Nauta and other employees moved Trump's boxes from the ballroom to the business center at the Mar-a-Lago Club."
Positive
12% Conservative
"'Nevertheless, Trump stored his boxes containing classified documents in various locations at the Mar-a-Lago Club -- including in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage space,' it adds."
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10% Conservative
"A Trump employee and and Nauta gathered 15 boxes from Trump's residence and took them to a commercial truck for delivery to NARA."
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10% Conservative
"A Trump employee and and Nauta gathered 15 boxes from Trump's residence and took them to a commercial truck for delivery to NARA."
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10% Conservative
"They also note that Mar-a-Lago, in addition to being Trump's residence, is an 'active social club' filled with the comings and goings of thousands of members, employees and guests."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Prosecutors say that the Bedminster Club is where Trump displayed and discussed classified records with visitors on two occasions, on July 21, 2021, and again that August or September."
Positive
8% Conservative
"On June 24, 2021 Trump's boxes in the bathroom of the Lake Room are moved into this storage room on the first floor of the Mar-a-Lago club"
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8% Conservative
"Also at this point, some boxes are moved to Trump's Bedminster Club in New Jersey, where he typically spends his summers."
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4% Conservative
"January 20 to March 15, 2021'Some' of Trump's boxes were stored in Mar-a-Lago's White and Gold Ballroom, where an evidence photo shows them stacked on the ballroom's stage."
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2% Conservative
"The conversations include discussion about Trump reviewing the contents, and how many of the boxes should be handed over to the National Archives."
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2% Conservative
"The following day, Trump met with his attorneys to discuss the grand jury subpoena."
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2% Conservative
"After completing his review of the storage room boxes, Trump's attorney handed over to the FBI 38 more documents with classification markings."
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2% Conservative
"At various times between January 2021 and last August, when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, the boxes were stored in ballroom, a bathroom, an office space, Trump's bedroom and a storage room, prosecutors say."
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-2% Liberal
"Nauta and other Trump employees are involved in a number of text message conversations about the 'boxes'."
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-2% Liberal
"Trump's boxes in the bathroom of the Lake Room are moved into the storage room."
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-4% Liberal
"As he left office, Trump ordered scores of boxes to be sent from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, his personal residence in Palm Beach, Florida."
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-6% Liberal
"A federal grand jury issued a subpoena on May 11May 22, 2022Nauta entered the storage room and left approximately 34 minutes later, carrying one of Trump's boxes."
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-6% Liberal
"Acting on a court-authorized search warrant, an FBI raid recovered 102 more documents with classified markings from Trump's office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago Club."
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-6% Liberal
"The FBI seized 27 documents from Trump's office, including six marked Top Secret, 18 marked Secret, and 3 marked confidential."
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-6% Liberal
"A Trump employee text Nauta asking about Trump's work reviewing his boxes in Pine Hall, a room in his private residence at Mar-a-Lago.'Has he mentioned boxes to you?"
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-10% Liberal
"A Trump employee text Nauta asking about Trump's work reviewing his boxes in Pine Hall, a room in his private residence at Mar-a-Lago.'Has he mentioned boxes to you?"
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-10% Liberal
"According to notes taken by one of the attorneys, Trump made remarks including:'I don't want anybody looking, I don't want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don't, I don't want you looking through my boxes.'"
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-10% Liberal
"Between the May 23 meeting with attorneys and June 2, prosecutors say that Nauta transported 64 boxes from the storage room to Trump's residence."
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-10% Liberal
"Trump denies any wrongdoing, and will appear in court next Tuesday"
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-12% Liberal
"Nauta wrote in a text message to another Trump employee, attaching photos of the spilled boxes.'Oh no"
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-12% Liberal
"Visible classified information was redacted from this photo by the DOJ prior to its releaseOn November 21, 2021 a Trump employee provided Trump this photograph of the Mar-a-Lago storage room so he could see how many of his boxes were stacked against the wall."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Visible classified information was redacted from this photo by the DOJ prior to its releaseOn November 21, 2021 a Trump employee provided Trump this photograph of the Mar-a-Lago storage room so he could see how many of his boxes were stacked against the wall."
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-12% Liberal
"On June 2, one of Trump's attorney's arrived at Mar-a-Lago and reviewed the boxes in the storage room for classified material."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Also in May 2021, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) began demanding Trump turn over presidential records that he had kept after his presidency."
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-16% Liberal
"At Trump's attorney's handed over the classified documents they found to the FBI, Nauta and other Trump employees were loading some of the boxes onto a plane for Trump's trip north to Bedminster for the summer."
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-20% Liberal
"At Trump's attorney's handed over the classified documents they found to the FBI, Nauta and other Trump employees were loading some of the boxes onto a plane for Trump's trip north to Bedminster for the summer."
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-20% Liberal
"At Trump's attorney's handed over the classified documents they found to the FBI, Nauta and other Trump employees were loading some of the boxes onto a plane for Trump's trip north to Bedminster for the summer."
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-20% Liberal
"A Trump employee provided Trump a photograph of the Mar-a-Lago storage room so he could see how many of his boxes were stacked against the wall."
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-22% Liberal
"A Trump employee provided Trump a photograph of the Mar-a-Lago storage room so he could see how many of his boxes were stacked against the wall."
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-22% Liberal
"Prosecutors laid out detailed allegations about how boxes filled with classified information were shuffled around his Mar-a-Lago residence after Trump left the presidency"
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-26% Liberal
"Trump's term as president ended at noon."
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-26% Liberal
"The sweeping 37-count indictment paints a grim portrait of Trump's treatment of sensitive information, accusing him of intentionally defying Justice Department demands to return documents he had taken from the White House."
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-34% Liberal
"The sweeping 37-count indictment paints a grim portrait of Trump's treatment of sensitive informationTrump has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, and is due to make his first court appearance on Tuesday in federal court in Miami, where the case was filed."
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-36% Liberal
"The sweeping 37-count indictment paints a grim portrait of Trump's treatment of sensitive informationTrump has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, and is due to make his first court appearance on Tuesday in federal court in Miami, where the case was filed."
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-36% Liberal
"In the historic federal indictment of Donald Trump unsealed on Friday, prosecutors laid out detailed allegations about how boxes filled with classified information were shuffled around his Mar-a-Lago residence after he left the presidency."
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-40% Liberal

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