“His ‘Beautiful Mind’ boxes”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the east. It is a through line in the story of the classified |
| 0:09.4 | documents investigation. The one thing, it keeps popping up over and over again. And it |
| 0:15.2 | just might have been one of the biggest factors that led to Trump being indicted by the government |
| 0:19.9 | he once led. It is, of course, his obsessive attachment to what he saw as his boxes. New |
| 0:26.4 | Times reports this quote during President Trump's years in the White House, his aides began to |
| 0:31.8 | refer to the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him almost everywhere |
| 0:38.1 | as the beautiful mind material. It was a reference to the title of a book and movie depicting the life |
| 0:43.9 | of John F. Nash Jr. The mathematician, who is schizophrenia, played in the film by Russell Crowe. |
| 0:50.1 | One former White House official who spoke anonymously to describe the situation, said that while the |
| 0:55.6 | materials were disorganized, Trump would notice if somebody had rifled through them, or they were |
| 1:00.1 | not arranged in a particular way. It was, the person said, quote, how his mind worked, but the |
| 1:07.0 | Times describes as Trump's style of organized chaos was nothing new. Here's a look at his office |
| 1:13.1 | at Trump Tower back in 2015 from an interview with the Wall Street Journal. This office is all you |
| 1:22.6 | and it's a little bit junky. Yeah, you know what? This I just got a few weeks ago, this is from |
| 1:30.5 | the Marine Corps. That's the chair for the apprentice that I used to use. Oh wow. These are different things. |
| 1:36.5 | Tom Brady Super Bowl helmet. Wow. This is Mike Tyson's belt. This is Vince McMahon from the |
| 1:44.9 | World Wrestling Federation. This is Shaquille O'Neill Shoe. Oh my God. Right here, which is a |
| 1:49.9 | serious issue. As our friend and the former principal deputy director of national intelligence, |
| 1:57.0 | Sue Gordon has explained us on this broadcast. There were guardrails at least at the White House, |
| 2:02.5 | while he was president, to protect the sensitive national security documents that Trump had at his |
| 2:07.9 | disposal that ended up in those boxes. Those guardrails, of course, disappeared. The second, he was no longer |
| 2:13.3 | president. So in his, it is official capacity. He had a lot of rings of professionals around him |
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