Donald Trump was federally indicted on Thursday; the indictment was unsealed on Friday afternoon. The charges — thirty-one counts of willful retention of classified national-security information, five counts on obstruction of justice, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice — pertain to material Trump took from the White House after his presidency, stored in Mar-a-Lago, and refused to return. I will spare you any further prelude because I’m in no mood for it after reading through this mess — and neither will you be once we’re done.
The indictment can be found here. Come and see. Come one, come all, and read it. The text is lucid, the case is made with a minimum of jargon, and it hits like multiple icepick blows to the skull. Do not willingly keep yourself ignorant of its enormity because you would prefer to huddle in a tortoise-shell defensive crouch. There aren’t merely claims, there are evidentiary submissions, including remarkable photographs and excerpts of recorded conversations.
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