By now, the American people are no stranger to former President Donald Trump’s various legal entanglements. Sometimes his predicaments are complicated or convoluted affairs. The Russia investigation, for example, required Americans to navigate a tangled web of second-tier political operatives and Russian oligarchs. Trump’s first impeachment trial introduced Americans to a wide range of Ukrainian political figures, past and present. Even the January 6 hearings revolve around a motley crew of partisan hacks and fringe legal figures.
Trump’s classified document scandal is, by comparison, easy to understand. The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago last month and found a trove of classified documents there. That material was not supposed to be there, especially since Trump is no longer president. There are no indications that Trump has a good-faith defense to raise—Oops, sorry, these accidentally fell in when I was leaving the White House!—because he and his legal team actually spent several months resisting returning them to the federal government, after which they made false claims that they had already returned them.
I am not suggesting that this is a slam-dunk prosecution, of course, but at least Americans don’t have to learn a long list of names this time. The former president and his legal team have struggled to explain the situation to their supporters or adequately defend themselves. There are signs that one of their only plausible defenses—that Trump had actually declassified the...
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