Should Donald Trump escape any legal consequences for removing and storing classified information at his home in Florida, the fever-swamped, blue-check resistance members of the media will have only James Comey to thank for it.
When a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago was executed and then unsealed last Monday, we learned one of the criminal statutes under which it was executed was the Espionage Act (18 US Code § 793), which makes it illegal to gather, transmit or lose defence information. Should a person actually be prosecuted on that charge, he or she could face up to ten years in prison.
The political problem Joe Biden’s Justice Department has with such a scenario is, of course, that Trump was his former (and possible future) political opponent in a presidential race. Then also consider the optics of Merrick Garland, the Biden-appointed attorney general who was prevented from sitting on the US Supreme Court by Trump’s election, going after the former president.
Should charges against Trump move ahead, it will deepen the politicised divide in a country already riven by partisanship
Further complicating this matter, 18 U.S.
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