Donald Trump is back on Twitter … sort of. Last night, after revealing that the Department of Justice had indicted him on several as-yet unnamed charges, Trump published a four-minute video response through his campaign’s fast-response Twitter account. Trump accused the DoJ and Joe Biden of “election interference at the highest level,” and declared in both the tweet he obviously authored and the video, “I am an innocent man”:

This comes down to two main arguments. Is Trump an “innocent man” in the moral sense that he’s claiming here (as opposed to the legal sense, in which everyone is innocent until proven guilty)? And is this “election interference at the highest level”?

Count me as a no on the first claim and a damned straight on the second. And in this case, the latter outweighs the former, especially in regard to the rule of law and damage to the institutions of our republic.

Let’s start with the first, and bear with me, because the first is definitely not the last. According to 18 USC 793 (Espionage Act) and other related statutes, anyone found in unauthorized possession of classified material in any form is guilty of a federal crime.