So is this the situation where Millie pushed a plan to attack Iran; Trump rejected it; Millie tells the New Yorker that Trump was pushing to attack Iran, but he, Millie, was stopping the crazed militarist Trump; Trump tells the journalists that Millie is full of crap and Trump has dcumentation to prove it?
It seems that the way this game works, Millie, who has no Presidential powers, can give journalists information advantageous to US adversaries with impunity, but Trump, who does have Presidential and ex-Presidential powers, gets charged for refuting Millie’s claim. Was Millie in on a plot to bait Trump into defending himself? Why isn’t Millie being charged for giving journalists the information in the first place?
And the big farce is that Iran, like most sentient beings, knows we have all sorts of plans to attack it. They assume the worst of us and have the brains to figure out that Trump didn’t approve any plans to attack Iran or they would have been attacked. They also have discerned that Trump is no longer President and that anything he reveals about US plans is stale. D’oh — What a HUGE advantage Trump telling journalists about this gave the Iranians...
Trump was not charged for the incident involving the Milley document. I think it was included to demonstrate that Trump knew he had classified documents, knew he did not have the authority to declassify them, and was careless handling them by sharing them with people who should not have access.