Jack Smith Has Had Enough!

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : 2) Does Trump have the sole authority to categorize any record(s) as personal or presidential during his presidency?
41% : "The PRA's distinction between personal and presidential records has no bearing on whether a former President's possession of documents containing national defense information is authorized under the Espionage Act," wrote Smith.
35% : He explained that Trump didn't claim he designated classified documents as personal until "more than a year after he left the White House," which would mean his defense is an after-the-fact excuse made only once the investigation into the documents began and well after he left the White House.
30% : And this week, Smith obliged Cannon's request and submitted jury instructions, but he included a massive caveat -- this indictment does not charge Trump with violating the PRA.
25% : "Smith has charged Trump under Section 793(e) of the Espionage Act -- Slate's Fred Kaplan explains that law here -- over Trump's willful retention of classified documents.
22% : Yet Cannon's jury instruction assignment suggests she's pandering to the former president, since Trump's attorneys have argued that Smith's use of the Espionage Act is overly vague, and instead have argued the PRA justifies Trump taking hundreds of boxes of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago.Smith made clear that he disagreed with Cannon's approach here.
10% : As his classified documents case languishes in the hands of Florida's Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon, Smith filed a new motion on Wednesday that argues Cannon is pushing a "fundamentally flawed legal premise" that has nothing to do with the indictment of Donald Trump.

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