Assessing the Gravity of Trump's Federal Indictment.

Legal experts say that obstruction charges in the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump and his aide Walter Nauta carry as much serious weight as the charges related to keeping top secret documents, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Obstruction charges can cover a broad range of alleged activities, from lying to investigators to destroying evidence, but it all comes down to one clear allegation: that the accused deliberately interfered with an ongoing criminal investigation. The government will stress that their obstruction case is based on the fundamental idea that no one is above the law.