“I had no idea I even had that stuff” won’t fly, especially when Trump has already said he declassified the documents, which is more malarkey.
Stark — apply the same facts to any high ranking military officer or intelligence agent. It is bad enough that the documents ever went to Mar-A-Lago in the first place. Really bad. But, deliberately playing keep away and deliberately falsifying what was returned makes it inevitable that Trump will be charged.
DOJ has no choice. Otherwise, they could never enforce the same laws against any other American.
Link: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120240781/justice-department-trump-special-master