Here's the megathread to talk about and post articles to information about Trump's latest indictment in the documents case.

Indictment document

Indictment document - 38 counts

Judge Cannon is assigned to the case.

Charges:

• Willful retention of national defense information
• Conspiracy to obstruct
• Withholding a document or record
• Corruptly concealing a document or record
• Concealing a document in a Federal investigation
• Scheme to conceal
• False statements and representations

Useful links and sources

Daily Beast write up about 18 USC § 793 from a year ago but probably helpful to understand it still.

18 USC § 793

https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-indictment-classified-documents-miami-182ac44fde89767bc0c3e634f61686bd

Trump aide indicted in connection with this case.

Table courtesy of /u/bharder

Thank you!

Mod Notes

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Edit: comments are back. hurray!

June 9:

This is pretty damning. These are the kinds of documents that jeopardize national security, the lives of Americans, and our position as a global power including things like nuclear secrets and military planning. There are 38 counts and a lot of cartoonish bad guy behavior in it - like making a plucking motion to try to get his lawyer to take out any "bad" documents.

It's probably worth pointing out that Reality Winner was indicted on 1 count of willful retention of documents and received pretrial detention and a prison sentence. Trump is charged with 31 counts under that section alone.