But the question still is open — was it or was it not really classified?
I’m still unclear as to how a jury can know whether or not the document he said is classified is INDEED classified. Why? I want to know if what many FReepers and lawyers are saying is true :
THE FACT THAT TRUMP TOOK THEM MAKES THEM DECLASSIFIED BY DEFAULT.
That question may get litigated in all of this. I have to say I hope the idea that just because a president takes a bunch of classified documents with him as he walks out the door makes them declassified is not upheld. Imagine the mischief Biden could create when he leaves office. He could take a lot of classified data that would be valuable to businesses or other countries and sell it to the highest bidder. Since the data would no longer be classified, he wouldn’t be guilty of any crime, unless he specifically sold information to an enemy of the United States