From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.

As the Republican National Convention entered its second day, Donald Trump and his allies

absorbed the stunning new reality that the most formidable legal case against him had been thrown out by a federal judge.

Today, my colleague Alan Foyer, on what it means that the classified documents case may now be dead.

It's Wednesday, July 17th.

So,

So, Alan, it's been a pretty relentless week of news about Donald Trump, an assassination

attempt, him announcing his vice presidential pick at the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

on Monday night and amidst all of that we got the news that really in any other

week would have been the only thing anyone was talking about.

And that is what appears to be a major legal victory for Trump.

The judge in the classified documents case throughout the case.

Remind us about this case.

Sure.

This is the case against Trump in which he stands accused of taking a trove of highly classified documents from the White House

after he's left office down to his new post presidential home in Maralago, his club in Florida.

And not only has he been accused of taking this stuff, these state secrets that really no longer

belonged to him because he's no longer president. He then has been charged with

willfully obstructing the government's repeated efforts over the course of months to get these documents back.

Right? And the one investigative step in this case that everyone will surely remember is when the FBI executed a

search warrant at Maralago two summers ago and they hauled away 45 boxes of stuff and found more than 100 classified documents in those boxes.

Right, the boxes stacked in the bathroom, the classified documents all over the house in Marilago.

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