This guy lays out the criminal case pretty well. But:

"Opinion | Espionage Isn’t the Strongest Case Against Trump. It’s
Simpler Than That.

He kept sensitive documents when he was told he shouldn’t and that’s a chargeable crime."

"Much of the initial reaction to the search warrant focused on the
Espionage Act, which was cited in the search warrant. While the title of
that over 100-year-old law sounds like it has to do with spying, it is
possible to violate the Espionage Act just by improperly retaining
national defense information and failing to return it to the United
States government when it is demanded.

That statute, along with one of the other statutes cited in the search
warrant, require the prosecution to prove “willfulness.” In other words, they require the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant intended to break the law. It is often difficult to meet this
burden, and one strategy I used as a federal prosecutor was to have
agents serve targets of investigations with a notice indicating that
what they were doing was breaking the law. If the target continued to
violate the law after receiving the notice, we had the proof we needed.

DOJ’s repeated requests and demands to Trump and his team served the
same purpose. It will be difficult for Trump to claim that he did not
realize that the records he kept were national security secrets that
rightfully belonged to the government, given that the government
repeatedly told him so and demanded their return. Moreover, Trump was
present when the DOJ visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with his lawyers and
demand the records."

"Obviously, the underlying evidence against Trump is not yet public, but
even based on the limited information we have, it looks like the DOJ has
viable charges against him. That doesn’t mean that they will bring them.
The main purpose of the search warrant was likely the recovery of
classified material, and DOJ might go no further."

OTOH:

"While Trump repeatedly evaded criminal liability for acts he committed
while in office, in part because the office he held provided him with
potential defenses, he is no longer president. And unlike other
outside-the-box acts he allegedly engaged in, like ordering that the
special counsel who investigated him be fired (which his White House
counsel disregarded), or inciting a mob to attack the Capitol, taking classified material and concealing it from the government is a crime
that is regularly charged and straightforward to prove. Government
employees are charged, convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms
for doing what Trump did."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-nsa-employee-sentenced-prison-willful-retention-classified-national-defense

"Former NSA Employee Sentenced to Prison for Willful Retention of
Classified National Defense Information
Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland, and a naturalized U.S.
citizen originally of Vietnam, was sentenced today to 66 months in
prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for willful retention of classified national defense information. According to
court documents, Pho removed massive troves of highly classified
national defense information without authorization and kept it at his home."

While, back at cult central, things proceed as normal:

"Trump demands FBI return seized documents back 'to the location from
which they were taken'"

"Reacting to a report from Fox News that "sources" claim the FBI took "privileged" documents with them when they confiscated sensitive
government documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump made a
demand on his Truth Social that they be returned to him immediately."

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-2657861053/

TB

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)