Article II of the US Constitution gives the president - the only elected official in the Executive Branch - absolute power over all the departments, agencies and bureaus within that branch, or the vast majority of government functions. The entire document classification system is designed to control access to information at the sole discretion of the president, who has no legal limits on what he can see or do with those documents, as the decision is his and his alone. Existing laws also provide a broad ability to take documents when the president leaves office. Since the first president, these documents are generally placed in a "presidential library," where they are available for research and historical purposes. At it's core, the indictments against Trump are the bureaucracy asserting that it has more power than the president, a completely baseless and utterly frightening claim. Should the government prevail in this case, the Constitution would be gutted, and the largest and most dangerous branch of government would be run by hordes of unelected and unaccountable drones. Regardless of any other consideration, Trump must prevail in this case, or the social contract will be voided and the US will cease to exist as a Constitutional Republic.