Former assistant U.S. attorney and Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy explained Friday the crux of the Trump indictment.

Former President Donald Trump announced he had been indicted on Thursday, and formal charges were lifted on Friday. The charges against Trump include 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act and willful retention of national security information, one count of “conspiracy to obstruct justice,” one count of “detaining documents and records,” and one count of “confidentiality.” 1 is included. 1 count of ‘wrongful concealment of documents or records’, 1 count of ‘concealment of documents in an adjourned investigation’, 1 count of ‘planning to conceal’, 1 count of ‘false statements and representations’.

Fox News’ John Roberts asked McCarthy for his initial reaction.

“On the surface, how do you feel what we are hearing?”

“I’ve been saying all along that what we understand for the facts is that they issued a grand jury subpoena to former President Trump in the sense that they caused it, or he caused it. The thing is, I thought the blocker here was going to be Big Kahuna.” The theory is that his attorneys provided false information to the FBI to force a grand jury to decide whether he turned over all of his belongings. We were told,” McCarthy said.

“Now that I read the indictment, first of all, it’s a very detailed, narrative indictment, and it’s just the bare bones that talks about statutory violations. ​And the first 30 or so charges in this indictment specifically relate to classified documents, which means there may be one or two classified documents. To the extent that we were led to believe there were actually more than 30 and what they did was probably the most sensitive of all: collecting documents and billing them as a separate count Did.”

Host Sandra Smith said that in 2021, Trump would show several people at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., the attack plan that the Pentagon allegedly prepared for him, according to the indictment. It was pointed out that President Trump told each individual that the material was classified and could be declassified during his tenure, but technically could not be declassified in his absence, the indictment states.

McCarthy said there were both political and legal allegations.

“On the legal side, this means that he had a classified document that he was not authorized, could not, legally unable to pass it on to people who did not have a classified clearance. It shows intent and awareness, and the fact that Mr. McCarthy is dealing with documents the way he treated them based on that knowledge is very important to prosecutors in terms of proving what they have to prove in court. will be beneficial to the (Related: ‘What are you talking about?’: Stephanopoulos furious after ex-Trump lawyer says Biden declassified documents)

“Politically, I have never personally been shocked by his allegations. No. Because even if he did declassify, let’s just assume he did for the sake of argument, even if there’s no real evidence, because the espionage law doesn’t mention classified information, so it’s a spy It’s not a legal defense — it’s talking about defense information, so even if he declassifies everything, if he’s mishandling defense information, he’s declassifying it. It wouldn’t matter what he did, and of course they gave him a subpoena for obstruction.”

“So again, it doesn’t matter if he declassified it, because if it had been marked classified, it would have had to be turned over anyway,” he added.

Mr. Roberts then asked whether the alleged sabotage was “at the core” of the case.

“I think so,” said McCarthy. “One of the things that former President Trump wants to make, and what he wants to make to juries as much as he wants to make it to the public, is that he is being elected here, and this is optional. I think that is the basis. You know Hillary Clinton passed, Biden passed or will pass, Pence passed too but they singled him out to indict and because what the government wants back By contrast, anyone in the United States who lies under oath to a grand jury will be prosecuted, but it is not a selective prosecution. ”

“It’s the kind of thing people can easily get into their heads and think, “You know, that’s not allowed,” and imagine themselves being prosecuted for that kind of conduct. It’s from Another political aspect is that Democrats, including the Biden Department of Justice, want to distinguish between Mr. Trump’s situation and Mr. Biden’s, and sabotage is what makes it possible. Because what Biden would say is, “I was completely cooperative with the agents, let them — I agreed to a search of my house.”

“In contrast, they would go to show that Trump fought them every step of the way and tried to hide things from them,” he concluded.

Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in Miami on Tuesday.