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Obviously, insane amount of news today. President Trump apparently has now been indicted on seven criminal charges in this classified documents case.

Now, you will recall that this classified documents case actually began in like 2021 because it turned out that President Trump in 2021 had a bunch of documents over at Marlago,

and those documents were actually requested by the National Archives. It was in May 6th,

2021. They alerted Trump that it was seeking approximately two dozen boxes of records be returned to it as required by the Presidential Records Act, according to Ryan's Vedra of Daily Wire. The National Archives warned Trump in late 2021. They could escalate the issue to prosecutors or Congress. If he continued to refuse to hand over the documents, he was also then warned by former Trump White House lawyer, Eric Hirschman. he could face serious legal jeopardy if he did not comply. In January 2022, about 15 of those boxes were

returned, at which time officials discovered there were hundreds of pages of classified material in the boxes, and then federal law enforcement was notified of the discovery, and then they came to believe there were more materials that had not been returned. And then in May 2022, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena seeking additional classified documents. A few weeks later, the DOJ decided to raid Mar-a-Lago

Trump's legal team. And then in May 22, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena seeking additional classified documents.

A few weeks later, the DOJ decided to raid Maralago.

Trump's legal team signed a written statement claiming that all the classified material had then been returned.

On August 8th, the FBI executed a search warrant on the property and recovered more classified material.

So that is the sequence of events leading up to all of this.

Now, let it be stated upfront that the treatment of classified material. So that is the sequence of events leading up to all of this. Now, let it be stated up front that the treatment of classified material by various public

officials is extremely messy.

So among the public officials that we know have had classified material in a place they

weren't supposed to have that classified material, that'd be like Hillary Clinton,

Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Donald Trump. The only one of those

four people who had the power to summarily declassify if he had gone through any sort of

procedure with regard to declassification was President Trump. The president can summarily

declassify anything. He's the head of the executive branch. None of those other characters

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