MSNBC Deadline White House June 4, 2024 20:14:00
Documents to be classified. it was enacted long before the modern classification system. as a practical matter though, if it were true, hypothetically speaking, mr. trump in fact took concrete action to declassify as mater of law the documents, you know, that would weaken the prosecutoral merit of bringing a charge under the espionage act for willful retention. i can think of only one case when i was chief of the counter intelligence section and the first case in history where i authorized charges in the case where documents weren't classified. but that's because they had to do with the scheme...
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