Takeaways From the Unsealed Warrant for the Search of Trump’s Home

The Justice Department is investigating violations of the Espionage Act.

But it was the third possible violation that made news. Prosecutors cited Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 793, better known as the Espionage Act, which outlaws the unauthorized retention of national security information that could harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary.
 
Why did Mr. Trump hoard government documents?

Agents collected five sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. Included in the manifest were also files pertaining to the pardon of Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime associate of Mr. Trump’s, and material about President Emmanuel Macron of France.
 
Merrick Garland had the right to remain silent. Not anymore.

Few public figures have been so vocal about keeping quiet as Mr. Garland, who takes great pains to explain why he cannot talk more about the Jan. 6 investigation, or other matters involving Mr. Trump.

But his decision to address the public on Thursday, to request the unsealing of the warrant, marked a break in his pattern. Mr. Garland, facing withering pressure to explain the rationale for the first-ever search of a former president’s home, said he was now free to speak on the matter only because Mr. Trump had broken the news himself.
 
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