Byron York in dailyherald:
A few days have passed since the Justice Department informed former President Donald Trump that he had been indicted. Some of the main issues involved, both legal and political, are becoming clearer than they were in the first frenzied hours after the news broke.
There are two other groups who factor into the political calculation -- the Republican presidential candidates and GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Reporters being the way they are, almost every prominent Republican within a mile of a microphone is being asked to declare a position on the Trump indictment.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Immediately after the indictment, Gov. Ron DeSantis, the leading challenger to Trump, tweeted that,"The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society." DeSantis suggested that Trump was a victim of the"uneven application of the law." But at the same time, DeSantis noted that he, DeSantis, had to scrupulously observe classification rules when he was in the U.S. Navy.
Next, the legal side. The first thing to say is that a lot of respected legal voices believe the indictment is a very serious document."I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were," former Attorney General William Barr told Fox News."If even half of it is true, then he's toast."
Then there is the question of the seriousness of the documents Trump is charged with mishandling. The indictment says they are among the government's most sensitive secrets. This is how the indictment describes them:
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