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The documents that #Trump mishandled were full of tightly controlled info that he stored on an insecure ballroom stage & in a spare water closet. Besides, the improper handling of #ClassifiedDocuments was a key line of attack that Trump himself used against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Moreover, the charges that Trump faced weren’t about taking the documents. They were about his alleged all-out effort to avoid a lawful subpoena & defy federal law-enforcement ofcls.
The indictment describes what must be the stupidest #crimes imaginable, & he totally got away with them.
The temptation might be to write this matter off as a lesser concern, akin to the byzantine case that branded #Trump a felon in NY. Apologists have noted that other officials, including Joe Biden, also mishandled #ClassifiedDocuments. Resist the siren call of these rationalizations.
Looking back on the 4-year Donald Trump interregnum, the failure of the case against #Trump for hoarding #ClassifiedDocuments is not the most serious or influential—that would be the utter lack of #accountability for Trump’s attempted overthrow of the government, including instigating the violent attack on the US Capitol—but it might be the most maddening.
- David A. Graham
#NationalSecurity #unfit #criminal #law
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/classified-documents-trump-case/681327/
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