Looking back on the four-year Donald Trump interregnum, the failure of the case against Trump for hoarding classified documents is not the most serious or influential—that would be the utter lack of accountability for Trump’s attempted overthrow of the government, including instigating the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol—but it might be the most maddening. Even though there was no dispute over whether Trump had the documents or whether they were sensitive—Trump argued, without evidence, that he was entitled to them or had declassified them—the former president used the FBI search as the central example in a narrative of unfair persecution.