Donald Trump

by Bob Williams, Stevensville

From what I’ve gathered, there’s a grand jury investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection intentionally obstructing Congress.

And, there’s a widening grand jury probe in Fulton County, Georgia, investigating Donald Trump’s recorded endeavor to get a fraudulent Georgia vote count in last year’s Presidential Election.

In the New York civil case involving tax fraud by the Trump Organization, there are 36,000 newly submitted documents for the New York AG to evaluate. She will compare those documents with Donald Trump’s tax filings.

Besides working with attorneys in the above cases, Donald Trump has to field a new legal team to make an appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court, or the Supreme Court, if he wants to keep his 2015-20 IRS tax returns private, and out of reach by the House Ways and Means Committee.

And he has to hire attorneys to defend why, unlike a patriot, he intentionally stole 35 boxes of documents that actually belong to the National Archives. Some of those attorneys must be experienced with classified, top secret, SAP information, as found in the 15 boxes Trump reluctantly returned, after secretly holding them for a year. And be up on espionage law. Those 15 boxes may have been less likely to implicate DJT in criminal activity than the 12 boxes DJT did not return.

The DOJ subpoenaed and watched Mar-a-Lago closed circuit television, before establishing a search warrant to seize certain listed boxes that had been identified by a person at Mar-a-Lago. A search warrant noting which laws Trump might have violated. For instance, maybe, 18 USC 793, violating the Espionage Act. Reportedly, two of Trump’s attorneys witnessed the 8/8/22 seizure of 12 boxes of documents illegally held at Mar-a-Lago. And saw the search warrant listing what materials would be seized, noting that Trump’s possessing them was in violation of which laws.

Besides all of the above, Donald Trump has to deal with legal consequences of being involved with the John Eastman fraudulent scheme to not pass executive power to the Biden-Harris administration.

And, as if that was not enough, Donald Trump has to anticipate if the phones DOJ seized from Senator Rick Scott and Representative Scott Perry might have evidence incriminating DJT with the 1/6/21 insurrection intentionally obstructing Congress.

And much more importantly, Donald Trump has to  work with a core legal team about how to respond to possible DOJ charges. Of say, Obstruction, Sedition, and running a cover up. A cover up when his agents oversaw deleting 1/6/21 information on some Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Secret Service (SS), and Department of Defense (DOD), phones.

Prominent GOP political leaders criticized the DOJ document seizure at the home of the past President of the USA. Some people contend that the Mar-a-Lago document seizure was so unjust that violence, even civil war, was justified. Others contend that stealing 27 boxes of US government documents was certainly unjust. And worse, the documents were held in a very insecure setting. Even worse, what were the purposes of the small number of people involved with the stolen documents? Monetary or transactional purposes? Espionage purposes? 

There’s a lot for the DOJ to pay for and contend with, in addition to dealing with ongoing court cases for the 1/6/21 defendants.

That’s a lot for journalism to responsibly deal with.

That’s a lot, but not too much, for us, young and old, to deal with. And understand. And reserve judgment until more material evidence is revealed by responsible journalism.

Perhaps Donald Trump became his own worst enemy. Had he not violated so many laws, he might have had a better chance at successfully running for President in 2024.

Selecting White House documents to steal, and transporting them to his residence, was neither reasonable nor responsible. Was more like a thief who thought he was above the law, so he would not get caught.