John Heilemann Sounds The Alarm On Trump Nuke Documents: ‘There’s A Big Nuclear Black Market Out There’

MSNBC host John Heilemann warned Friday morning that former president Donald Trump may have sold U.S. nuclear secrets to foreign countries for his own personal gain.

Thanks to the Washington Post, we know that nuclear secrets were among the documents the FBI was looking for when they executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort on Monday.

Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands.

That led Heilemann to note on “Morning Joe”:

“One giant concern is whether foreign adversaries could find their way to possessing them. Another is the possibility — and, God, perish the thought — that Donald Trump, and I say that sarcastically, but Donald Trump might have thought, ‘You know, when I leave the White House, I’ll take everything of value, of potential monetary value, that’s not nailed down.'”

Heilemann then added:

“You can’t steal the furniture. It’s hard if you are a president to walk out the door with furniture. Sometimes you think you can steal documents. Apparently, he thought that. Those documents, if those are what they entail, man, there is a big nuclear black market out there in the world. Those secrets could be worth a ton of money if the president wanted to try to monetize them.”

All of those possibilities, Heilemann concluded, must have been on the minds of the Justice Department, and that led to the search warrant:

“I think there is not only the possibility that they might somehow fall into the wrong hands because… Donald Trump has no ability to control information around him, but I think there’s the other worry. Donald Trump might try to exploit them in some way. That has to be going on in the heads of some people at the Justice Department, as well.”