Marcy Wheeler: “DOJ only needs to identify a single classified document to charge the former President under the Espionage Act. And given the way that Trump is ginning up outrage and attacks on FBI agents (which the government cited in explaining the need to keep the affidavit sealed), charging him with a single count indictment describing (hypothetically) the nuclear codes might be a good way to shut everyone up. They could use that to offer Trump a plea deal to lesser charges while they catalog other documents that each could bear a separate 10-year sentence.”
“If they’ve already singled out Trump’s passports, they surely are processing the stolen classified documents that could expose Trump to years in prison.”
“And Trump’s still at the manufactured outrage stage of his defense.”
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