Former President Donald Trump displayed an unusual attachment to the boxes of materials he brought home from the White House before he was charged with hoarding national security secrets and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.
Trump's aides called the boxes he "carted around with him almost everywhere" his "beautiful mind" material, a reference to the book and film about John Nash, a mathematician with schizophrenia who covered his office with newspaper clippings that he believed held a Russian code he needed to crack, according to The New York Times. His aides used the phrase to capture the "organized chaos" that Trump insisted on — transporting the boxes "that he kept close and that seemed to give him a sense of security."
