(08-09-2022, 09:17 AM)mikesez Wrote: The Dispatch quoted Mike Davis of the Article III project who had an interesting thought on the matter.
As much as the media wants this to be about classified documents, because of the irony of the guy who decried Hillary's server mishandling classified info himself, it's probably not about that. 
As President, Trump could declassify stuff at will.  So if he took stuff away that was still classified, before noon on January 20, then it's not so much that he did something he's not allowed to do, as it is he forgot to file the proper paperwork before doing something that he is allowed to do.  Technically a crime, but not one worth punishing.
So the fact that some of these documents may have been classified is probably not material to the case that the FBI is trying to build.

Maybe. I think there has to be some consideration given to "criminal intent" too. There have been numerous instances of Trump destroying documents while he was in the White House that he's required, by law, to archive. But if there was no criminal intent (for example he wasn't trying to hide evidence of some other crime), then perhaps it's not that big of a deal. I'll be waiting to see how this plays out and if it has any relevance to the January 6th hearings.

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