The classified information that is being described is not and can't possibly be shielded by executive privilege. In other words, he didn't have a right to have it, he didn't have a right to have it in his beach house.
Gertner discusses the implications of Trump having classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and asserts that executive privilege does not apply.
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I don't think there's any question that he himself is under investigation for violations of the Espionage Act.
This is just pushing back on the judiciary, and then, when the judiciary does what they don’t want them to do, and the judiciary says this is wrong, trying to delegitimize that decision.
What is interesting about what she said, though, is that she's kicking all of this to the trial itself. And the trial could well be a mess, allowing Trump to raise defenses that really no one else would be allowed to raise and essentially…
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