Trump KEPT Time cover of ‘enemies’ knocking at his window among the collection of classified files

Government lawyers released an image of highly classified material scattered on the floor of the office of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home that also reveals a Time Magazine cover photo that forecast his future defeat.

Trump, who is known to covet recognition by the magazine and scrupulously read coverage about himself, maintained a framed copy of the magazine, whose February 2019 cover proclaimed “Knock Knock.’

It showed a bevy of Democratic candidates peering into the Oval Office – with then-former Vice President Joe Biden front and center.

The magazine is seen among a stack of identical frames. 

All around, spread out on a patterned carpet, are documents with prominent red ‘TOP SECRET / SCI’ markings – a very high classification level. SCI stands for ‘Sensitive Compartmented Information,’ which suggests national security information.

The filing notes that even some of the national security FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ lawyers had to get additional clearances just to review them.

The government included image along with a blistering 36-page filing that recounts the months-long efforts that culminated in a subpoena in an effort to claw back government documents. That preceded an August 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Other classified documents were found inside Trump’s desk.

 The filing also signaled a government obstruction investigation of the former president. 

‘The government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation,’ according to the filing, which came shortly before midnight Tuesday. 

The Time cover shows a wary Trump seated in the Oval Office. Peering in are Joe Biden and potential Democratic rivals

Former President Trump attacked the FBI for the search and claimed agents placed documents on the floor, without providing evidence

The government says material agents found undercut the claim signed by a Trump lawyer that his team had conducted a ‘diligent search.’

The FBI, ‘in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as this “diligent search” that the former PResident’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform,’ according to the filing.

The Time cover shows a group of Democrats who Trump regularly attacks or mocks, some of whom now hold prominent positions of power. Besides Biden, it features now Vice President Kamala Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke. All were vying to take on Trump in 2020.

Trump was named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ in 2016, and he complained on later occasions when he was denied the recognition. The magazine said he was ‘incorrect’ the following year when he complained that he cancelled an interview when told he was only ‘probably’ going to get the recognition again.

‘But I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!’ Trump wrote.

Trump on Wednesday attacked the FBI for the search and claimed agents placed documents on the floor, without providing evidence

‘Terrible the way the FBI, during the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see,’ he said in a Truth Social post.

‘Thought they wanted them kept Secret? Lucky I Declassified!’

The government noted in its filing that when FBI agents and a DOJ attorney went to Mar-a-Lago in June to retrieve material, Trump’s team did not claim that Trump had declassified the documents or assert a claim of executive privilege.