Report appears to confirm security officials’ worst fears about the nature of the material Trump refused to hand back
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Donald Trump’s legal jeopardy could be heightened by the reported discovery of a foreign nation’s nuclear secrets among his hoard of improperly retained classified materials, some experts believe.
Michael Moore, former US attorney for Georgia, was asked on CNN if the finding could provide the justice department – which is conducting a criminal investigation into the former president’s handling of secret documents – with more evidence to bring charges:
I really think that’s probably the case. The documents that they had dealing with national defense may have been enough as it was under the Espionage Act, [which] doesn’t really require classified materials to be held and stolen. It [only] required defense information.
This information about nuclear capabilities and defense is particularly troubling to me, and there’s no good way to spin it for the [ex]-president. The three blind mice would say that he’s in trouble with this at this point.
I’m worried about is how the news is getting information about what the documents are. It seems to me that Trump’s request for a special master is justified, because somebody somewhere is leaking information about the specifics of these highly classified, highly sensitive documents.
That may change the dynamics, not just on the criminal side, but also the legal side.
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