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Hey, everyone hyperventilating about #EmptyFolders

Slow down. Breathe.

Yes, the inventory lists empty folders with “CLASSIFIED” banners or marked "Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide.”

This almost certainly doesn’t mean what you think.

Here’s a sanity check.

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Classified documents, and most unclassified docs that are nevertheless sensitive, are usually carried between offices in places like the White House *in folders*.

Why? In large part, to keep prying eyes (or enterprising press photographers) from seeing them during transit.

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So it is natural that boxes containing hundreds of classified/sensitive documents would also have the very folders that the docs had once been carried in and left in on a principal’s desk.

You need not list which folder each doc was in, if was in a folder at all when found.

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Guys, they're actually running with this. Not that Trump unlawfully (!) kept classified docs but that there were EMPTY FOLDERS with classified banners on them
Oh I think Maggie Haberman said he flushed them down the toilet
I think the folders had copies of the Steele dossier, the pee tape, and Alfa Bank data
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