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

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/14/trump-classified-documents-doj-opinion-00051584

Despite Trump’s insistence that if the government wanted the records back, “all they had to do was ask,” the government repeatedly asked for the records and Trump refused to give them back, giving them only “what he believed they were entitled to.” Although Trump may believe that highly classified defense secrets are his own personal property, or that he could keep Top Secret documents because he informally “declassified” them without following established procedures, it will be difficult to convince jurors that he had a legitimate reason to keep such sensitive national security information at his Florida resort.