“Black that!!!” – with several posts on social media, Donald Trump’s (76) eldest Donald Trump Jr. (44) made it clear what he thinks of the published details of the investigation by the US authorities against his father.
On Friday, the US Department of Justice released documents related to the FBI’s raids on the ex-US President’s estate: 32 pages with explosive details – mostly blackened. Reason enough for Trump Jr. to mock the authorities and their investigations!
On Saturday he shared a photo showing his father playing golf – a black bar censors the ex-president’s step. More than 340,000 times the tasteless post was marked with “Like”!
And not only that – with five posts within a few hours, the president’s son vented his frustration: a photo of Trump behind blacked out lines showing the middle finger. An animation like President Joe Biden (79) stumbles over the blackened lines. Trump Jr. commented on another post about the censored pages with “Transparency sucks!!!”
On August 8th, the ex-president’s private residence was searched by US authorities. REASON: On January 20, 2021, Trump took boxes with confidential and even top secret documents to his private villa – and it was only in January of this year that the 15 boxes in total were handed over to the National Archives.
According to a published document, the US Department of Justice warned Trump’s lawyer in June that the ex-president “is not authorized to keep classified documents”. When FBI officials then searched Trump’s Florida home on August 8, they confiscated numerous documents – including some they said were classified as “top secret.”
Among other things, the ex-president is suspected of violating an espionage law. After all, US Presidents are required by law to hand over all official documents, including e-mails and letters, to the National Archives when they leave office.
Trump himself rejects all allegations, claiming that all documents had been released, meaning that secrecy had been lifted. He describes the raid as politically motivated and accused the government of his Democratic successor Biden of abusing the FBI for political purposes.
He apparently gets support from his family, as Trump Jr.’s tasteless postings show …
(lvo)