To hear Donald Trump and his Republican allies tell it, the Justice Department is engaged in a dramatic abuse by prosecuting the former president. Federal law enforcement, the argument goes, could’ve shown great discretion, but federal prosecutors instead went after the Republican with everything they had.
In January of last year, Trump returned 197 classified documents to the federal government. Despite his willfully retaining those documents for months, the federal indictment released last week does not charge Trump in connection with any of them — which is to say, the DOJ gave Trump a pass on 197 potential counts of willful retention of national defense information.
. If he weren’t a former president, it’s quite likely he would have been charged for having illegally held so many classified documents he wasn’t supposed to have for so long.
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