The indictment of Donald Trump is a “holy-shit document,” sbg1 writes. “In a world inured to the shocks and outrages generated by Trump, it’s worth pausing to acknowledge the jaw-dropping nature of the charges against him.”
, in the first-ever federal criminal case against a former President, which was released on Friday afternoon by the Justice Department, is a holy-shit document. That might not be the proper legal term for it. But, in a world inured to the shocks and outrages generated by Trump, it’s worth pausing to acknowledge the jaw-dropping nature of the charges against him.
Trump is reported to have improperly taken “hundreds” of classified documents. Of the thirty-one documents that Trump is specifically charged with illegally possessing, thirty are described as involving military or intelligence secrets, while the one outlier, a document from October 21, 2018, is related to “communications with a leader of a foreign country.
The over-all portrait of Trumpworld contained in the indictment is fully consistent with the shambolic operation the former President ran in the White House, in which little appeared to matter except his own whims. Trump himself is depicted as the orchestrator of a conspiracy to keep the F.B.I. from seizing the classified files he wanted to hold on to.
One of the most prominent pieces of evidence cited in the indictment—right there on page 3—appears to have been generated by Trump’s anger over a
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