The 37-count indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal charges of willfully retaining documents containing national defense information and then refusing to return them is especially grave because 31 counts relate to violation of the Espionage Act. Tess Bridgeman, former deputy legal advisor to National Security Council and co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, and Bill Galston, senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, analyze the damage done to US national security and the political ramifications of former President Trump’s alleged actions.