Former President Donald Trump has offered a shifting array of defenses in response to the August 8 FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which uncovered a trove of secret documents.
Trump supporters waved flags outside a legal hearing in West Palm Beach, Florida, on August 18, 2022, which considered the unsealing of documents from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.New legal documents were unsealed Thursday by a federal judge in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid.They hinted at ways of prosecuting Trump that do not rest on whether documents he kept are classified.
One implication of the new information is that even if Trump is right about the documents being declassified, he still could have broken the law, Lawrence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law scholar, tweeted.Prior to Thursday, the only information about the laws agents believed Trump may have broken came from the warrant itself, which was unsealed last Friday.
Bradley P. Moss, a national security attorney, told Insider that the new documents"clarify but ultimately do not change much" of what we previously knew."Clearly, the FBI currently believes Mr. Trump not only took properly marked classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, but he kept them and resisted turning them over when confronted by the government," Moss said.
"I have no reason to suspect the government would pursue a charge if they concluded there was sufficient evidence the records were in fact declassified, as Trump keeps claiming," he said."Even if the Espionage Act charge falls through, the government"It is unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility, they would do so on its own.
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