Agent Orange Indictment

I could understand a few documents going missing but dozens of boxes with thousands of documents? Seems like the secret/classified document thing is just a meaningless facade.
There were thousands of documents in total but only a comparatively small number of them (around 100) were classified.

For instance, if you look at the photo in the indictment of the box that had spilled its contents onto the floor, some of the "documents" were just newspaper clippings of stories about him.

Apparently (I read online somewhere) it is quite normal for Presidents to have boxes of documents for their personal use, some of which they keep.
While it's normal for Presidents to have (and subsequently keep) boxes of documents, it's not normal for that to include quite so many that are classified.

As stated in the Washington Post article below, Trump had a particularly cavalier attitude to handling classified documents. As it says, he routinely took classified documents that had been:

used in his intelligence briefings to his private residence with no explanation, and aides sometimes lost track of the sensitive documents.

Trump’s disdain for intelligence rules foretold his indictment
 
The number of classified documents could well be a lot larger than the number of counts on the indictment.
Apparently, in order for each count to be brought, the agency with control over the document in question has to agree that it will be released to the jury in some form. Even if it heavily redacted they'll still get a feel for it. Some agencies will no doubt feel that even acknowledging the existence of some of the documents is too big a security risk and they won't agree for them to be part of the case. It could be that they are too sensitive, too current or whatever.
 
The number of classified documents could well be a lot larger than the number of counts on the indictment.
Apparently, in order for each count to be brought, the agency with control over the document in question has to agree that it will be released to the jury in some form. Even if it heavily redacted they'll still get a feel for it. Some agencies will no doubt feel that even acknowledging the existence of some of the documents is too big a security risk and they won't agree for them to be part of the case. It could be that they are too sensitive, too current or whatever.
Ie attack plans against other states or info on partner states security
 
You would think by now that they didn't just have random boxes of printed documents knocking about uncontrolled.

When I was in the military anything secret (code bricks/ printed documents) were kept in a safe, had to be signed out and back in again, and was double-checked everything was where it was meant to be at end of shift. Of course, making copies wasn't allowed either, certainly not in an uncontrolled manor. We were sharing some info/ codes with the US too, and it seemed they also had similar procedures too.

I just don't get why there would be hundreds of printed classified documents lying around, which were uncontrolled, and not returned, absolutely horrendous security.

I bet he wasn't even reading them, most presidents likely would not have the time, but Trump more than any seems a lot less responsible so my guess is he read even less than the average president had time for. So, what was the need to have so many, if in theory he should have had less than any other? No doubt his key staff were reading them and just passing him the key info, but this is fairly standard, but equally they shouldn't have been open to leaving this info lying around either.

I don't even know why they bother with printed documents either, especially those of a secret nature, surely they could just use secure iPad's or whatever, and then when the day for being president was up, just hand the iPad over or it gets locked out.
 
You would think by now that they didn't just have random boxes of printed documents knocking about uncontrolled.

When I was in the military anything secret (code bricks/ printed documents) were kept in a safe, had to be signed out and back in again, and was double-checked everything was where it was meant to be at end of shift. Of course, making copies wasn't allowed either, certainly not in an uncontrolled manor. We were sharing some info/ codes with the US too, and it seemed they also had similar procedures too.

I just don't get why there would be hundreds of printed classified documents lying around, which were uncontrolled, and not returned, absolutely horrendous security.

I bet he wasn't even reading them, most presidents likely would not have the time, but Trump more than any seems a lot less responsible so my guess is he read even less than the average president had time for. No doubt his key staff were reading them and just passing him the key info, but this is fairly standard.

I don't even know why they bother with printed documents either, especially those of a secret nature, surely they could just use secure iPad's or whatever, and then when the day for being president was up, just hand the iPad over or it gets locked out.
It wouldn't surprise me if the printed copies were created at his behest. I've worked with a few bosses who wouldn't read anything more than a couple of sentences on a screen and would print it out to "read properly".
 
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