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As hard as it would be for the Intelligence Community to declassify 31 highly classified documents for trial, it might do as much damage to Trump's psyche to have the contents of "his" "beautiful mind paper boxes" shared for the entire world to see. And that may give Jack Smith leverage over Trump in any plea negotiations.

The CIPA processes of Josh Schulte -- who was the topic of Donald Trump's first classified compromise -- and Scooter Libby -- whom Trump pardoned -- will be key precedents to this CIPA process.

The Trump indictment reveals why investigators were asking most of the questions that made the press coverage. But it doesn't reveal when the surveillance gaps are, who put them there, and why.

As a former prosecutor at The Hague, Jack Smith learned from Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg how to prosecute the crimes of national leaders, and the indictment of Trump reflects those lessons well.

The Mar-a-Lago indictment is, in very significant part, a renewed invitation to Walt Nauta to cooperate in an ongoing grand jury investigation into what happens to documents when they go to Bedminster and disappear forever. 

Here's a link. I'll update in a bit. There are 31 counts for withholding documents, each holding a 10 year sentencing, on top of the obstruction charges. I'll summarize them: May 3, 2018 White House intelligence briefing (TS/NOFORN/SPECIALHANDLING) …

Donald Trump has been indicted under the Espionage Act.

I a Trump indictment comes in the next few weeks, it could provide Republicans an opportunity to distance themselves from Trump.

After it became public that Trump had returned hundreds of classified records in January 2022, Trump denied he had been in the filing room sorting classified documents. DOJ likely now has abundant evidence that the filing room came to him.