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kodiac asks why tRump would
not just say to hell with this and go back to his life?
Because his ONLY hope of escaping prosecution for the crimes he has committed is by winning the election.
Absconding with and hiding top secret documents while lying to NARA about them is a serious crime!
One part of the act, first passed by Congress during World War I, that could surface in a Trump indictment is 18 USC 793(e). Carrying a 10-year possible sentence, it prohibits people from, among other things, unauthorized possession of national defense-related documents that are willfully retained and not delivered to the government officer or employee entitled to receive them.
In Trump’s potential case, the National Archives and Records Administration was entitled to receive the records Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago and failed to deliver. That section of the Espionage Act wouldn't require Trump, for example, to share the documents with a foreign government in order to be charged.