Reacting to a report from the New York Times that Donald Trump's obsession with the boxes of documents he illegally took with him from the White House when he lost re-election had become an object of amusement among his close aides, an equally amused Eugene Robinson ridiculed the ex-president on "Morning Joe."
According to the Times, "When one employee asked the other if some could be moved to storage, the second employee, identified by multiple people as Mr. Trump’s former assistant Molly Michael, replied, 'Woah!! Ok so potus specifically asked Walt for those boxes to be in the business center because they are his ‘papers,'" before adding, "At another point, she used the phrase 'the beautiful mind paper boxes' in a text message, the indictment says."
Given the chance to comment on the revelation, Washington Post columnist Robinson cut right to the chase.
"In addition to being a bad person, Donald Trump is a deeply weird person," he blurted as the entire panel burst into laughter. "Remember that point in the indictment where he's talking to Evan Corcoran, his lawyer, you know, about the 'pluck 'em out' conversation, and he's saying, 'I don't want anybody going through my boxes. I don't want you going through my boxes'?"
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"It is almost a Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings moment,'" he continued. "He has a hoarding instinct about the documents. Some weird security blanket, some sort of -- it boosts his ego and reminds him that he actually somehow became president of the United States."
"I don't know what it is about it, but it's pathological, in addition to being criminal," he added.
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