The classified documents indictment is a stunning display of Trump's narcissism [View all]
The now-unsealed indictment in the case of United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta has it all, seemingly every Trump flaw condensed into 49 pages and 38 counts of squalid detail. It is a devastating legal document, but it is also a damning character study of a man whose faults are all too familiar yet retain the power to shock and appall.
In the neutered language of lawyers and their numbered paragraphs, 96 in all, the indictment details the relentless selfishness of Trump’s conduct. The former and would-be future president, in prosecutors’ telling, lied to his own lawyers, pushed them to hide evidence on his behalf, then stood by as they submitted a blatantly false affidavit to federal authorities — all while proclaiming himself an “open book.”
He stored the most classified of government secrets — about matters as sensitive as the vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack — on the stage of the Mar-a-Lago ballroom. He permitted secret “Five Eyes” intelligence material to spill onto the floor of a storage room easily accessible from the pool patio. Responsible people view such documents in a SCIF, shielded from electronic eavesdropping and fortified against intruders. Trump kept them in a chandeliered bathroom.
He hammered his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, for mishandling classified information, then behaved in a far more egregious manner. The indictment doesn’t mention Clinton by name, but prosecutors took pains to lay out numerous Trump campaign statements criticizing her — and hammering home the importance of safeguarding classified information.
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