Trump’s lawyers are believed to be planning to argue that as president of the United States, the 76-year-old was given very “broad powers” that would have given him the right to “hold” or “release” documents as he saw fit. to give”.
Section 793, however, states that the rule applies even to those who “lawfully” have “possession, access, control, or entrustment with any document” related to national defense who then “intentionally communicates, delivers , sends or causes to be communicated, delivered or sent or attempts to communicate, deliver, send or cause to be communicated, delivered or sent to any person who is not entitled to receive it, or intentionally withholds it and does not request to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it.”
Section 793 further clarifies that those who break the law can face up to 10 years in prison.
