I just finished reading the entire indictment, and I and most everyone else have been operating under a misapprehension. There is no charge for sharing classified information with an unauthorized person. It looks like the transcript of the audio was included as evidence that Trump knew he had possession of classified documents, and that he knew he did not have the power to declassify them. In that transcript, Trump even talks to a staffer about seeing if they could get the document declassified, which led to his statement acknowledging he could not declassify it himself. Seems like that was included in the indictment to establish mens rea (guilty mind), and to demonstrate that classified data was at risk of being exposed by Trump having possession.
But what was this classified material? What was the document? They don’t have that. All they have is Trump saying whatever he was holding was classified. He could have been talking out of his hat. They can’t prove that what he had was actually classified because they don’t have whatever document it was he was holding....if indeed he was actually holding a government document and not say, his monthly water bill in an envelope when he was speaking.
...in connection with a then-forthcoming book.
That's all it says about any book. (on Page 15)
Now it's found out that when you commented to me you hadn't read the whole indictment.
Your comment, CA Conservative 6/10/2023, 11:08:36
...books being written about Mark Meadows. That is specified in the indictment.
So, to continue our discussion, what page?