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Before special counsel Jack Smith released the indictment charging Donald Trump for mishandling hundreds of classified documents, speculation was rampant that the twice-impeached former president was going to be charged under the very law he signed in 2018 to toughen up misuse of classified documents. That would really have been delicious. Turns out, he’s not being charged under that law. What he is being charged under is even better—potentially 100 years in prison better.
That’s not to say that Trump’s pushing for and signing that law doesn’t make an appearance in the indictment. The indictment includes five examples of Trump doing his “Lock her up” schtick attacking Hillary Clinton over her supposed emails scandal, statements that reinforce that even when he was a candidate, Trump knew how classified documents should be handled. He campaigned on it.
