About Those Burn Bags President Trump Mentioned in His Address to the Nation

Tim O'Brien : Jul 20, 2026
PJ Media

Could those bags contain more proof of the deep state covering up election schemes?

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And so, when President Donald Trump delivered his address to the nation on July 16, he brought attention to something we should know much more about but don't yet: the discovery of "burn bags," which Trump said contained sensitive documents from the Obama administration.

Trump said, "Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags... and this is a group of bags that were used to destroy information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned...These bags were supposed to be at a different level, by different people, incinerated...but it never happened. Maybe we got lucky."

As the term implies, burn bags contain material that is slated for destruction, sending all of the former administration's secrets into that big shredder in the sky. But someone "dropped the bag," and more than a few of them were left to be discovered by the second Trump administration in the FBI building.

Now that Trump is sitting on a political treasure trove of data and information that can be used to expose the left, expect a distraction or two. Whenever the left panics, you start to see ginned-up controversies over allegations of Trump "stealing our democracy," "climate change," "Christian nationalism," or all of the above.

Given the seriousness of the potential contents of those burn bags, it wouldn't surprise me if the left goes even harder with its lies and wrap-up smears to try to take Trump out using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.

As a result of the Trump administration's discovery of those burn bags, the president ordered the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to review the documents, analyze them, and see if any laws were broken. That analysis will focus on the handling of the sensitive information and the chain of custody of the documents themselves, and the contents of the documents that were never destroyed.

It must be noted that simply finding some old burn bags doesn't mean something improper was done. The federal government uses burn bags as a matter of course to destroy sensitive materials that will no longer be kept on file.

The president believes that the bags of documents could unearth critical information that has been concealed from the public eye. He bases this viewpoint on his past experience with both the Obama and Biden administrations and their pattern of not preserving, or not providing access to, certain important intelligence information.

In other words, Trump knows what he doesn't know, and he wants answers. Could those bags contain more proof of the deep state covering up election schemes? Do any contain information that implicates specific members of the Obama or Biden administrations?

If Trump knows, he's not naming names or providing details just yet.

Trump's mention of those burn bags was in the context of his larger address on election integrity failures and questionable activities on the part of Democrat administrations, their political operatives, and others. As leftists circle the wagons to protect their favorite former Democrat presidents and their people, leftist central messaging is already testing the following key messages:

"Alleging foreign interference in an election is not proof (evidence) that a foreign government successfully controlled the outcome." This is like saying, "Sure he had a gun and shot at ya, but he missed ya, so he didn't do anything wrong."

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