Personally, I suspect Trump was setting up a real estate deal.

Mara-lago is so expensive to maintain, those who inherited it kept returning it.

The woman who built Mar-a-lago, Marjorie Merriweather Post, wanted to give it to the state of Florida, but Florida said no, it was too expensive to maintain.

When Post died in 1973, she bequeathed Mar-a-lago to the National Park Service, and Congress returned it. The Smithsonian also declined to accept Mar-a-lago (due to its $1-million a year maintenance budget). Similar properties around Mar-a-lago were so expensive to maintain, people could not sell them, and they were torn down.

Poor Mar-a-lago sat empty until 1985, when Trump bought it for $8-million. By then, what was $1-million in maintenance expenses in 1973, was $5-million a year.

I suspect Trump planned on getting rid of Mar-a-lago, by turning it into his presidential library. If so, moving “his personal presidential papers” to Mar-a-lago makes a Trump style deal maker’s kind of sense. After all, his presidential papers, and interesting momentos, like a letter from Kim Jong-un were already at Mar-a-lago.

I also suspect Trump intended to maintain a private residence, in “his presidential library” where he imagined himself hosting global deal makers, kings and leaders. Trump gets a palace, and the taxpayers pay the $7-million a year in maintenance costs.

I can’t help but wonder, if those classified documents included a climate change report that showed ocean waters swallowing Mar-a-lago.

That’s my theory for the day…