In the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid, new legal documents were made public.
There are new details about the FBI's investigation with the search.
There are ways to prosecute Trump that don't depend on whether the documents he kept are classified.
The FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in August and found a trove of secret documents.
They claim that they were all declassified by him when he was in office.
Legal experts say that the cover sheet of the warrant used in the search may not be as effective as Trump hoped.
Even if Trump is correct about the documents being declassified, he can still be in violation of the law.
Lawrence Tribe made that observation.
—Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 19, 2022
The only information agents believed Trump might have broken was from the warrant.
The Espionage Act is one of the federal statutes it listed. There was more information in Thursday's documents.
The FBI believes that Trump may be guilty of willful retention of national defense information, concealing or removal of government records, and obstruction of federal investigation.
According to Bradley P. Moss, a national security attorney, the new documents do not change a lot of what we know.
He said that the FBI believes that Trump has interfered with its investigation.
The FBI believes that Mr. Trump took properly marked classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, but he kept them and refused to turn them over to the government.
Even if the information turns out to be classified, the FBI could still use an obstruction of justice charge against Trump.
Moss thinks that it's unlikely that prosecutors would make that case.
He doesn't think the Government would pursue a charge if they found enough evidence that the records were declassified.
The obstruction charge could be pursued even if the Espionage Act charge fails.
It's not out of the realm of possibility, but they wouldn't do it on their own. Our jails are full of people who were caught up in charges that were not intended to be used.
The affidavit underpinning the warrant is likely to detail the grounds for believing that Trump might have committed these crimes.
He said that he was leaning towards releasing it in a redacted form because it contained sensitive information. The next hearing is on August 25.
The Insider contacted the office of the President.
In an interview with Newsmax, Habba said that Trump had cooperated with investigators and argued that he declassified the information.
A number of figures from the Trump administration have described that claim as a lie.
Business Insider has an article on it.
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