Multiple lawyers have declined to take the former president’s case in which he is accused of mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, people familiar with the matter said.

The Justice Department’s first prosecution of a former president concerns conduct that prosecutors say jeopardized national security, with Espionage Act charges carrying the prospect of a significant prison sentence.

Speaking at the Georgia Republican Convention, Trump cast his indictment as an attempt to hurt his chances of returning to the White House.

In the indictment, Donald Trump kept hundreds of classified documents, along with newspapers, in cardboard boxes at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.