Donald Trump has finally -- finally -- been indicted. Ruth Marcus writes in The Washington Post:
For me, a seven-count indictment — though we haven’t seen all the specific charges and accompanying details — is an amply justified demonstration of the rule of law in action and the principle that no person, not even a former president, is above the law.
At the time of the Mar-a-Lago search, there was a lot of talk, and not just from Trump allies, about whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had overstepped — whether he was transforming a matter of sloppy housekeeping into a federal case. I was not among those doubters, and the evidence that has since emerged only strengthened my conviction that Trump’s behavior was egregious and that his efforts to obstruct justice elevate this episode into the realm of criminality.
Among the evidence: reports that Trump aide Walt Nauta told federal agents that he moved boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at Trump’s direction. “Investigators now suspect, based on witness statements, security camera footage, and other documentary evidence, that boxes including classified material were moved from a Mar-a-Lago storage area after the subpoena was served, and that Trump personally examined at least some of those boxes,” The Post’s Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Perry Stein reported in April. And in a sealed opinion, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell found that the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege justified prosecutors’ decision to require Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran to answer questions and turn over notes about the documents search.
All this convincingly distinguishes the Trump case from the seemingly parallel situations of former vice president Mike Pence and, more to the point, President Biden, both of whom came forward, in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago revelations, to volunteer that they had found classified documents among their private possessions.
Trump accuses Biden of doing the same thing he did -- which, of course, is absolute rubbish. But, then, Trump is a child. Chronologically, he's almost 77 years old. But his intellectual and emotional development froze at the age of seven.
Nevertheless, Trump will whine and complain for the rest of his life -- which will probably be spent appealing his convictions and in jail.
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