The young woman called herself Anna de Rothschild. She boasted the name of the famous family. She spoke of luxury construction projects in Miami. She wore a Rolex and drove a black Mercedes SUV. Last year she was invited to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and mingled with his fans there.
She met the ex-president and played golf with him the very next day. A photo shows the 33-year-old on the golf course in May 2021. Then she poses with the ex-US President and Senator Lindsey Graham, who is dependent on him. All three are pointing their thumbs up and smiling.
Meanwhile, the FBI is looking into “Anna de Rothschild,” whose real name is Inna Yashchyshyn. Yashchyshyn is a Russian-speaking Ukrainian immigrant, daughter of an Illinois truck driver, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Yashchyshyn easily bypassed security around Trump’s club, estate and residence. Not only her name and her story were lies. She also handled fake passports. The name “Anna de Rothschild” was also found on a driver’s license from Florida – with the address of a luxury villa in Miami, where Yashchyshyn never lived.
She was granted access to Mar-a-Lago several times on this basis. A video shows her driving her Mercedes onto the Palm Beach, Florida site. The Secret Service, also responsible for the security of former presidents, let them pass.
What sounds like a soap opera or a mediocre comedy is now an example of how easy it seems to get into Trump’s private spheres – and thus into the vicinity of all those government documents, some of which are secret, that the president-elect has kept since he left from the White House was stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Republican politicians had often ridiculed the United States as a “banana republic”. In doing so, they are not scolding their former President Trump, but rather the constitutional investigations against him.
These attacks on the state, judiciary and federal police have been de rigueur in much of the Grand Old Party since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8. Because Trump kept the official records private, he may have broken the law. This is currently under investigation.
On Friday, the government released part of a document authorizing searches at Trump’s home.
It does not contain any new details about the eleven sets of documents that the FBI seized on August 8th. The government has not confirmed initial media reports that Trump is said to have even stored secret documents on nuclear weapons at home.
The document describes in more detail why the Department of Justice considered it necessary to obtain the papers from Trump’s possession. Investigators have known for months that Trump was keeping classified government documents.
According to this, 14 of 15 boxes with documents that Trump had previously sent from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives contained top secret documents. 184 documents were classified, 67 as “confidential”, 92 as “secret” and 25 as “top secret”.
Of the more than 30 pages, about half have been redacted to protect sensitive information, such as the names of FBI officials.
The document said neither the storage facilities at Mar-a-Lago nor Trump’s office or living quarters are approved for storing classified information. The property has a dual function: Trump lives here during the cooler seasons, and in the summer he often stays at his property in New Jersey.
In addition, however, the site is a private club to which paying members, their guests and participants of events have access – including “Anna de Rothschild”. What motives she had and whether she acted on behalf of an organization is now being determined.
As expected, Trump commented on the release of the document with conspiracy theories. “Witch Hunt!!” he wrote on his network Truth Social. His latest idea: Instead of the government, a neutral examiner should view the materials.
Although Trump apparently managed to rally his party behind him after the raid, he missed the momentum to announce a third presidential candidacy. Meanwhile, several candidates he supports for the November midterm elections are battling poor poll numbers.
As US gas prices and inflation ease slightly, the Democratic Party is catching up two months before the midterm elections, but incumbent Joe Biden’s popularity remains muted. The Gallup Institute determined an approval rate of 44 percent, a one-year record. Trump came to 41 percent as president in August 2018 – at that time he was in office as long as President Biden is now.
