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[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

He's in legal trouble because of his criminal intent. He's tried to retain the documents that were recovered, and he's schemed to restain the ones that were not.

And during that time our enemies have killed our captured a large swathe of our humint sources. Very plausibly from leaks from Trump's poor security, or, more likely, that he just sold.

[–]GuyWhite 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nah, Trump declassified every one of those documents when he took them…just as the Presidential Records act allows.

Xiden took records when he was a senator and vp. He wasn’t allowed to declassify those records at the time.

There is no “intent” standard in the laws governing handling of classified documents.