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golfboy » 28 Jun 2023, 11:02 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2023, 11:02 am

Doesn't change the fact that the laws charged against Trump, require his intent to hurt America.

@golfboy  

793(e) does NOT require his intent to hurt America.

(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or

do you see all those "OR"s in there?

Explain to me how willfully retaining a document is synonymous with INTENDING to hurt America with that document.

Compare the language to this line from 793 (a):  Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States.