There's been a lot of talk about classified documents regarding the FBI raid on President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Trump himself talked about declassifying documents and there is a report about a "standing order" to declassify documents he had over documents that he was reviewing.
Summary:
- NONE of the three criminal statutes used to justify the search require materials to be classified.
- The search was authorized NOT because Trump allegedly had top secret information (which he says he didn't b/c he declassified).
- Under the statutes, it doesn't matter. The "classified" "top secret" is an emotive red herring.
The other backside to this is that if they are then going to try to hook Trump up for letters from Kim Jong Un or some such ridiculousness, that will just confirm to everyone what a political hatchet job this is.
- The aim ultimately here might be to get an indictment and hang him up, even knowing they would likely lose.
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