“August 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago during which agents found hundreds of classified documents inside Trump’s….”
They keep throwing around the term “hundreds of classified documents”. Is there any evidence that is a true statement ??? The FBI manifest only listed 11 or so Secret or Top Secret documents as being recovered in August. There were other materials of a lower or no classification level recovered but it does not seem to me that it added up to “hundreds of documents”.
branches of government, including US presidents, have frequently leaked classified information to journalists.[4][page needed][5][6][7]
Congress has repeatedly resisted or failed to pass a law that generally outlaws disclosing classified information. Most espionage law criminalizes only national defense information; only a jury can decide if a given document meets that criterion, and judges have repeatedly said that being “classified” does not necessarily make information become related to the “national defense”.[8][9]
Furthermore, by law, information may not be classified merely because it would be embarrassing or to cover illegal activity; information may be classified only to protect national security objectives.[10]