United States of America Versus Donald J. Trump
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. DONALD J. TRUMP
That is the official and solemn title of the Florida grand jury’s 37-count indictment against the failed ex-President. Nothing could be more fitting. Donald Trump has often attempted to cast himself as synonymous with the country, all the while working against our best interests in furtherance of his own. Finally, instead of the years of “Donald J. Trump v. United States of America”, we have a chance to fight back and hold this criminal accountable.
I have just finished reading the full indictment returned by the grand jury. It spells out a damning story. Trump knew that he had no right to the documents he stole from the American people. He knew what the documents contained; he was personally and physically involved in their transfer and secretive retention at his unsecured properties. Reading the description of how the boxes were moved here and there to different locations within Mar-a-Lago is like watching a Three Stooges movie. Except it isn’t funny. Trump and his man Waltine Nauta hid classified docs not only from the government but from Trump’s own lawyers. The classified information was of many sorts; nuclear secrets, our own military capabilities and those of our allies, the identities of our intelligence personnel, hypothetical plans of attack against foreign countries and our defenses against such actions aimed at the US, et al.
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Donald Trump waved these secrets and more under the noses of journalists, publishers, and staffers, acting like a schoolboy who had stolen the answers to an upcoming test and was bragging about it to his buds.
And to the MAGA crowd and the lawmakers that live in naked fear of your displeasure; This is not a political weaponization of the DOJ against a political candidate. This is how the “law and order” you claim to revere works. This is how the “personal responsibility for your own actions” is implemented. Donald Trump will be considered innocent unless and until a jury of his peers decides otherwise. That is how justice is achieved here in America. It is not achieved by threatening texts, emails, or screaming by media pundits. Holding our elected officials to the same rule of law as everyone else is - or at least should be - a vital part of what we as a country are all about. Justice matters.
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