Saturday, 10 June 2023

Trump is in serious serious trouble

What a difference a day makes. First it was reported that Donald Trump faced seven charges and now it's 37 and the detail of the alleged crimes is so staggering I am forced to change my mind and come to the conclusion that the 45th president of the United States, if found guilty, could be sent to prison for a long time. Accused of keeping incredibly sensitive material about America's nuclear weapons in a box in the shower at his residence in Florida? It beggars belief. If true, what on earth was he thinking and why did he do it? What was his plan? And documents that highlighted America's military vulnerabilities? In the bad old Cold War days, the KGB would have had those boxes out of the shower before you could say Niet. How his lawyers will find a defence to counter all this physical evidence is hard to see. OK, lawyers are clever people. The best can cast doubt on whether a man murdered his wife even when there are photographs of him doing it and a confession in writing signed in her blood. But Jack Smith, the special counsel whose immaculate report has itemised everything Trump is supposed to have hidden in his resort residence at Mar-a-Lago, is going to be hard to beat. Good luck Trump lawyers but the odds on the former president ending up in jail have dramatically shortened.

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