Radio host and shock jock Howard Stern offered multiple theories in a Monday broadcast for why former-President Donald Trump allegedly held on to nuclear documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The first theory Stern offered was that Trump flaunted his access to classified documents as a means of showing his legitimacy as the United States President.
“I think he was trying to prove to the Russians, like, ‘I’m really in control here. I’ve got top-secret papers.’ Meanwhile, he’s showing to them to Russians,” he said during his SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show.” “Just like, to prove that he was president in a way he doesn’t even believe it. That’s the most safe explanation.”
He offered another theory which suggested Trump was selling nuclear secrets for personal gain.
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“This is a guy who badly wants to do business with Russia and Saudi Arabia,” Stern said. “Imagine if he says to them ‘look man, give me a couple billion dollars, and I’ll show ya where France keeps their nuclear weapons, and you guys can see all this sh*t if you do business with me.”
Stern observed that this theory has grim implications.
“That would be a real dubious kinda horrible thing,” he noted.
He then added that his third theory was that Trump was saying, “Hey, you guys wanna buy this from me, I can sell it to you, Russia, for like $50 billion-you’ll know everyone’s nuclear secrets.”
Stern then appeared to conclude with a far less nefarious theory, suggesting he thinks that Trump just wanted the nuclear documents purely for the sake of having them.
“You know, that’s just the way he rolls. I don’t even think he has any idea what’s in those documents. He just wants them. He just wants them,” Stern theorized.
