Donald Trump is suspected of hiding Israeli treasures

Donald Trump may have brought more than just classified documents from the White House.

The ex-president is also suspected of having a stock of Israeli national treasures at home.

– I will not be surprised if the objects that Israel is looking for are also found in a bathroom, says a source.

Donald Trump is indicted on 37 counts for having taken with him quantities of classified documents from the White House. He had sent home so many boxes of classified documents that some had to be stacked in the toilet of his luxury residence Mar-a-Lago in Florida, USA.

And now it turns out that there are more people who want things back from the former president of the United States. Trump is accused of bringing high-end Israeli antiquities home to Florida after he ended his presidency.

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz these are antique clay lamps, which were sent to Washington to be part of an exhibition in the US capital in 2019. They had then remained in the US due to the pandemic – and were recently seen in Mar-a-Lago, writes Haaretz.

Would return immediately

According to Business Insider had the United States been allowed to borrow the candlesticks from Israel’s collection of national treasures for a Channuka Channuka Chanukka, also known as the “Feast of Lights” or the “Festival of Inauguration,” is a Jewish holiday in November or December. ceremony at the White House – on the condition that they be returned a few weeks later . Israeli authorities had planned to send a special courier to bring them home, but that became impossible during the pandemic.

Then Saul Fox, a major Jewish-American donor to the Israel Antiquities Authority IAA, was asked to take care of the old candlesticks. But soon they found out that they were at Trump’s estate, where, according to Fox, they are “stuck”. How they got there or whether Trump himself knew about it is unknown.

Investigated for the storming

IAA director Eli Eskozido has been in contact with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as with Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs and a former Israeli ambassador to the United States to ask for help in getting the things home, writes Business Insider.

– I would not be surprised if the items that Israel is looking for are also found in some bathroom, a source familiar with the case told Haaretz.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced he has been informed that he is being investigated for the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

He told that himself on his social media platform Truth Social. According to Trump, he had received a letter from Jack Smith, who is investigating the storming, and has four days to report to the grand jury.