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Notice how there is no charges about possessing classified documents? One charge leads you to assume assume that is what it means, but really it is just about having any information relating to the national defense and sharing it with others. The incidents of telling people of documents, or thumbing through one while someone watched, seems quite weak and dependent on if they were shown or told of any contents. The provided context doesn't specifically show crossing that line, by its self.

Similarly, the obstruction charges and accusations of intent to hide/conceal documents didn't include any actual evidence provided, just assumptions of vague actions and projections of intent. He asked his lawyer protected legal advice about legal options related to his privileges and duties to the legal requests/threats. He called someone briefly, before that person moved a box.

The rest was the prosecutor's filling in the blanks with the most nefarious assumption possible and stating it as fact. This form of gaslighting we are all very very tire of and have tolerated too much of over the last several years already.

It is Schrodinger's indictment, because to think a crime happened, you must assume every box had the desired documents in them. Someone moving a box is not criminal and boxes can contain other stuff. The literal criminal conspiracy charges being waged in court against multiple people here, based presumably entirely on the prosecutor's made up assumptions and projected motivations, without even knowing what was in the specific box, seems wildly insanely and obviously professionally out of line.

You must be careful not to say confidential documents, because that isn't what these charges are about specifically, just specific documents the archivist wanted. It was the prosecutor, who likely technically overstepped the law in filing a subpoena for all confidential material, as he didn't list all the relevant legal statutes governing document possession after leaving the presidency, nor special privileges related to them. Then he didn't specifically charge Trump with possession of classified documents. So it seems all the talk of classification markings and repetitive scary talk, more than half the indictment, was just for looks to sway the public.