[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The Clinton standard, which also applied to about 11 of her staff, states that the subject had to know they were breaking the law and intended to break the law.

That is a different argument, and it's worth separating the two points. The first argument is whether documents are actually declassified by a President simply thinking it, but not telling anyone or writing it down. I think the answer to that is going to be "no".

But the argument for criminal liability is different because it does require subjective intent on the part of the perpetrator. A court could find that President Trump believed that the documents would be declassified simply because he took them, and so find that he had no criminal intent.

[Husker24]

A D.C jury will not give him the benefit of the doubt.

[AnthonySoprano]

Let’s take your hardline stance. He’s not in a SCIF, and he wasn’t President here (2013). That’s a Violation of the Espionage Act.


And you know he’s not in a SCIF, the Chief of Staff next to him is using his Cell phone - or Camera.