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The Department of Justice on Friday afternoon unsealed the indictment against Donald Trump and his “body man” Walt Nauta. The contents of those documents include 38 counts, including 31 charges of willful retention of national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act. Many of the documents involved appear to be presidential daily briefs that included classified information concerning multiple nations. Many of the documents are so classified that the names are redacted, but one of those not redacted shows that it included classified details about the nuclear arsenal of the United States. It’s an amazing list.
The indictment then details a conspiracy between Trump and Nauta to obstruct justice. That conspiracy includes agreeing to provide false information to the FBI, moving boxes to hide them from both the FBI and Trump’s own attorneys, creating a “false certificate” informing the FBI that all classified documents had been produced, and making generally “false and misleading claims.”
The next charge involves Trump and Nauta “knowingly corruptly” persuading an unnamed attorney to withhold documents by lying to them about the content of the boxes, expressly so that the FBI would not find the classified documents. That’s followed by two charges of concealing and a charge of conspiracy to conceal involving Trump and Nauta.
Trump then collects a charge of false statements to federal investigators concerning statements that a “diligent search” had been conducted and all documents returned, when he was knowingly concealing classified documents. Nauta gets a matching charge to finish off the indictment.
But that’s just the charges.
The details inside are … something else.
