Former President Donald Trump could face 10 years in prison if found guilty of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly obtaining top-secret White House documents relating to nuclear weaponry.

Last August 8, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), through a search warrant signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to retrieve stolen government records.

The government unit is currently conducting a criminal investigation of Trump's potential violation of the Espionage Act, a law dating back to World War I.

Donald Trump Could Face 10 Years in Prison for Allegedly Violating the Espionage Act

According to Business Insider, legal analyst Lisa Rubin revealed that the former Republican President might be facing 10 years behind bars should he be proven to violate the Espionage Act.

Donald Trump is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly violating facets of the Espionage Act.

Last Friday, the Mar-a-Lago search warrant was unsealed, including the receipt of items seized from the Florida mansion. With the unsealing of the warrant, authorities also revealed the receipt of the items removed from the Trump estate.

These include several classified documents, including one set of documents labeled "top secret/SCI." The documents belong to the highest classification of documents considered the most sensitive.

Also recovered from the Mar-a-Lago home were four sets of "top secret" documents, three sets of "secret" documents, and three sets of "confidential" documents. 

Reinhart, who is now under fire by Trump supporters, inked the search warrant, which cited the violation of three federal laws - 18 U.S.C. §§ 2071, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1519, and 18 U.S.C. §§ 793.

"In terms of the statutes that are listed, if [former] President Trump were charged with any of those statutes. The one that puts him the most danger, as far as I know right now, is 18 U.S.C. §§ 793 that's the portion of the Espionage Act, for which each violation carries a maximum penalty of 10 years. We're talking about real serious crimes here," Lisa Rubin, a legal analyst, told MSNBC.

According to CNBC, violating the 18 U.S.C. §§ 793, which penalizes gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information, carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.

Apart from the listed statutes, Rubin further noted that Donald Trump could be charged for violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendment of 2018, taking the penalty of the unauthorized removal of documents from one to five years in prison.

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Mar-A-Lago Raid in Florida Recovered Nuclear Docs, Top-Secret Records

According to The Washington Post, the top-secret documents and classified information that were retrieved during the high-profile FBI raid on Donald Trump's Florida mansion were related to nuclear weaponry.

Classified information experts pointed out that the "unusual search" carried out by the Justice Department underscores a "deep concern" among the government. Sources provided little to no information on whose country owns the classified information seized on the raid.

As of this writing, neither Donald Trump nor the Justice Department has given any official comment on the true contents of the boxes and documents seized.

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Written by: Ivan Korrs

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