Another Hillary pitch in the dirt
Trump with the illegal retention of any documents that he returned to the archives earlier this year – 197 in all. He probably would not have been charged at all, if he had returned all classified documents in January, asAs former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz explained in the Washington Post, willful-retention charges often hinge on whether a person deliberately hid material from investigators or refused to return it.
Don’t miss an issue of our Opinion newsletter! Get it delivered each Wednesday right into your inbox by adding your email below and hitting"subscribe."Historian Tim Naftali, the former director of the Nixon Library, says the National Archives -- the repository for presidential materials – “allows for mistakes.” When archivists recognize something is amiss, “Our system requires good faith on the part of former members of the government,”.
That’s not how Trump rolls. Ask One Who Knows: “The government acted responsibly. They talked to him for a year to get those documents, and he jerked them around,” said Bill Barr, Trump’s former Attorney General, who predicts that his former boss is “toast” even if only half of the allegations are true.for an attack on another country -- or defense department documents about our capabilities -- are in no universe Donald J. Trump’s personal documents. They are the government’s documents.
It is more than just defiant recklessness; this indictment is a study in hubris, and now we have the first president in US history facing federal criminal charges. On that score, Hillary Clinton will never be a match for Donald Trump, but she can be confident that she won’t live out her final years in jail.
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