Thursday, March 28

Trump boasted of having “intelligence information” about Macron’s love life


Former US President Donald Trump told some of his closest associates that he had “intelligence information” about the love life of French President Emmanuel Macron, according to an exclusive report. rolling stone citing two sources with knowledge of these facts.

The Department of Justice publishes the document that justified the search of Trump’s mansion

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According to sources who spoke to the magazine, Trump bragged to some of his closest aides, during and after his time in the White House, about knowing private details about Macron’s love life and said he learned about some of them from through “Intelligence” reports that he had seen or been informed of. But Trump gave few details about what he allegedly knew, with one of the sources noting that “it’s often hard to tell” whether the politician “is lying or not.”

A few weeks ago, after the FBI searched the former president’s mansion in Florida, the inventory of the documents recovered by the agents was published with judicial authorization, including some with information about the French president. According to two other sources cited by rolling stonethis revelation set off a transatlantic uproar, particularly over Trump’s past comments about Macron’s alleged “naughty” ways that “[no] a lot of people know.” Both French and American officials have tried to find out precisely what Trump had in his house on Macron and the French government, and whether any of it was of a sensitive nature, according to the sources. Officials from both countries want to know if this discovery is some kind of breach of national security, or if it is a frivolous but stolen souvenir.

A French embassy spokesman assures rolling stone that France has not requested information from the Biden Administration about the documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago for its investigation.

Top secret information

Last Friday, the Justice Department published the affidavit document that justified the search of Trump’s mansion in Palm Beach on August 8. Although with large parts hidden, the text reveals that this May the FBI did a preliminary review of the 15 boxes removed from Mar-a-Lago and found 184 documents marked as classified, including 25 marked as “top secret”.

The affidavit or registration statement lists acronyms on some of the documents that indicate they were particularly sensitive, including some pertaining to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, a national security law for secret judicial clearances in highly sensitive cases. The agent in charge of writing the registration statement says that these types of documents usually contain national defense information, the type of government secret that is protected by the Espionage Act. He also mentions that several of the documents contained “what appear to be handwritten notes from the former president.”

“What was most concerning was that the highly classified records were unclassified, mixed in with other records, and if not [estaban así, se encontraban] without being properly identified,” says the agent.

Complicated relationship

The relationship between the leaders while Trump occupied the Oval Office was full of provocations, rebuffs and multiple attempts to reconcile two opposing visions of international politics: the liberalism and multilateralism of the French president, against the economic nationalism of the North American (summarized in the formula ‘ America first’).

The tensions appeared from their first meeting in May 2017, during a NATO summit in Brussels, with both heads of state in their first months in office. A first greeting marked by a twitchy handshake and by the first dissensions, after Trump accused the European countries of not contributing economically to the alliance. And although it seemed that the relationship was recovering when the US president described France as “the first and oldest ally of the United States” in July of the same year, the good words soon ended when the disagreements became present, especially after the departure of United States of the nuclear agreement that the Obama Administration had signed with Iran.

In the last months of the Republican in the White House, Trump denounced “Macron’s stupidity” in relation to the tax on digital giants. However, the last public mention that the former US president has made about the Frenchman has been (relatively) positive. It happened at a rally in Michigan in October 2020, when Trump used the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement as a campaign argument: “Do you know what else I have managed to stop? The Paris environmental agreement. I really like Prime Minister Macron [sic] and I have asked him how the agreement is going: they are not advancing”.





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