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Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News over the weekend that it would be "virtually impossible" to prosecute Donald Trump over any of his kept classified documents, bringing clarity to the situation.
Ratcliffe went on to say that the FBI was simply "acting as the muscle" for the Democrats, and claimed that Trump had the "ultimate declassification authority," that shielded him from liability.
"I thought, surely this is not about classified documents and the president being in possession of those. It has to be more than that because the Department of Justice and the FBI have already set a standard that makes it virtually impossible to prosecute a case like that," Ratcliffe told Fox Business's Larry Kudlow.
Other sources, however, have not been so easy to dismiss the possibility that Trump could be prosecuted, however.
An article from CNBC reported that though "Legal experts are mixed about whether the statutes cited by the FBI will lead to Trump’s prosecution.", the Trump search warrant contains statutes that might "carry possible multiyear prison sentences"
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