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Prosecutors opposed each of Trump’s demands to dismiss the case.

The Espionage Act’s prohibitions are clear and a former president should understand the paramount importance of protecting the country’s national security and military secrets, prosecutors argued.

“Trump’s vagueness argument is meritless,” prosecutors wrote in a filing. “The statute’s prohibitions are clear.”

Prosecutors also said the documents are “indisputably presidential,” rather than personal as Trump claims. Prosecutors said Trump’s argument that records are “transformed into ‘personal’ records by the alchemy of removing them from the White House is false.”

The Presidential Records Act “does not exempt Trump from the criminal law, entitle him to unilaterally declare highly classified presidential records to be personal records, or shield him from criminal investigations – let alone allow him to obstruct a federal investigation with impunity,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.