> So the reaction to Trump’s sharing such information with the Russians was simply absurd. The get-Trump mania was in full bloom in those days. Little has changed since then. In fact, FBI’s justification for the Mar-a-Lago raid simply recycled the same phony, get-Trump argument from 2017. > But in 2017, there were still a few adults at the Washington Post who felt the need to educate the public. Another headline read, “No, Trump did not break the law in talking classified details with the Russians,” adding, “The president is essentially the ultimate arbiter of what is classified and what is not. While the heads of particular agencies also have original classification authority—the power to deem material classified or not classified—their authority is limited to their departments and bound by their departments’ particular rules.” > “When it comes to classification issues and those kinds of things, he’s not above the law,” defense attorney Edward B. MacMahon, Jr., told the Post. “He basically is the law.”