Newly unredacted documents prove that the General Services Administration (GSA) effectively set up President Trump by sending pallets of documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence.
These deliveries occurred after President Trump left office in the summer of 2021 and purportedly included the very “classified documents” for which he is accused of unlawfully retaining.
What exactly is the General Services Administration? CBS News provided an explanation:
The GSA is a sprawling bureaucracy established in 1949 that now has 12,000 employees and a $21 billion budget.
It works largely behind the scenes to support other federal entities, with responsibility for managing federal office space, procuring supplies, and improving the use of technology across the government.
The GSA provides a presidential transition team with Washington office space and coordinates access to federal agencies to plan potential policy changes with current administration officials, using $6.3 million allocated to support its efforts.
Investigative journalist Julie Kelly shared the documents on X with the following caption:
WELL WELL WELL I am pretty sure we never heard this part of the “classified documents/box” story!
More from unredacted motions in FLA–this is from an unsealed transcript of witness interview.
FBI agent says GSA was holding large quantity of Trump’s boxes in VA and then ordered his team to come get them.
I am sure NOTHING hanky happened there…
So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago. Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with "classified markings."
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 27, 2024
I will double check indictment but I don't recall this event in the timeline: pic.twitter.com/H08oh4gkjI
Julie Kelly explained further:
This is an absolutely critical element of the “classified docs” case that Jack Smith never mentioned in his indictment and received only scant media attention.
GSA worked with Trump’s transition team before and after he left office. GSA stored massive amounts of records in boxes then informed transition team the boxes needed to be moved.
6 pallets of boxes were transported to Florida in August 2021–2 pallets went to Mar-a-Lago and 4 went to a storage facility in Palm Beach.
There is no question many of these boxes ended up in the MAL storage room. And keep in mind NARA was harassing Trump throughout 2021 for what they insisted were government records apparently WITHOUT contacting GSA to search dozens of boxes in their possession.
This is an absolutely critical element of the "classified docs" case that Jack Smith never mentioned in his indictment and received only scant media attention.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 28, 2024
GSA worked with Trump's transition team before and after he left office. GSA stored massive amounts of records in boxes… https://t.co/UhBWZ8tmi6
Trump's boxes were at the GSA, the government agency that handles logistics for the transition of the outgoing president to the incoming one.
— Filippo Maria O di B (@filippomaria60) April 29, 2024
They forced Trump to take them from his house, and then the FBI “recovered” them from Trump.
It smells like a Fed conspiracy to me! pic.twitter.com/Ce1oFwMm0A
Judge Cannon unseals DOJ docs that Jack Smiths band of miscreants redacted, showing Bidens GSA possessed boxes of 45s papers before they shipped them to MaL.
— 🇺🇲Salty Texan (@texan_maga) April 30, 2024
Translation: #GovernmentGangsters possessed ‘classified’ docs, shipped them to 45, then charged him, because they became… pic.twitter.com/rrleXl4sKn
Two years ago, CNN claimed that the GSA was not to blame for shipping the documents to President Trump:
The email exchange between GSA officials and Harrison is one of more than 100 pages of emails and documents newly released by the GSA that debunk claims from Trump and his allies that the government agency is to blame for packing the boxes containing classified documents that were later recovered by the FBI during the search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in August.
