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200 classified documents trump returned in january of 2022 after holding on to those for a year. as eric levitz smartly puts it in new york magazine, the department of justice gave trump a pass on 197 potential counts of willful retention of national defense information. instead it charged him with only 31 counts, each corresponding with a highly classified document that trump knowingly withheld from the government in january 2022 and the fbi later obtained. that is not how an ordinary citizen would be treated. we know that. because we saw what happened to, for example, reality winner. in 2017, winner, an air force veteran working for a military contractor, printed out exactly one classified document about russian hackers gaining access to voter registration rules during the 2016 election. she took the document home and kneeled into a media outlet. when you were subsequently arrested, jailed, charged with violating the espionage act, the same charged on trump is

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president extra latitude. they gave him opportunity after opportunity to return the classified documents that were removed from the white house and left all over mar-a-lago from the ballroom to the bathroom. as special counsel jack smith's indictment makes clear, they did everything in their power to avoid it all coming to this, which is prosecuting the ex president. for more than a year and a half they asked nicely before searching the ex president's florida home. when special counsel did bring charges they did not include, and this is crucial, the nearly 200 classified documents trump returned in january of 2022 after holding on to those for a year. as eric levitz smartly puts it in new york magazine, the department of justice gave trump a pass on 197 potential counts of willful retention of national defense information. instead it charged him with only 31 counts, each corresponding with a highly classified document that trump knowingly withheld from the government in january 2022 and the fbi later obtained. that is not how an ordinary citizen would be treated. we know that. because we saw what happened to, for example, reality winner.

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