George Conway, lawyer and soon-to-be ex-husband of Kellyanne, shares some important reminders about the charges against Benedict Donald:
"The classification question is a complete red herring. Although the documents were unquestionably, in fact, classified.
"No matter what their classification status is, the documents did not belong to him. They belong to the United States of America, and under the Presidential Records Act, they are required to be under the control of the National Archives and Records Administration.
"In addition, classification status is actually not relevant to the charges against Trump. The Espionage Act...essentially covers any sensitive national defense information, without regard to classification, as long as the information could be used to the detriment of the United States.
"Likewise, the obstruction charges do not turn on classification status. They turn on the fact that he obstructed an investigation into what documents he had, both classified and unclassified. And the subpoena that he defied and lied to the government about asked for all documents with classified markings, which would include documents he declassified but still had the markings, even if he lawfully declassified them — which he did not."
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