Now overwhelming
Wait a second Don, there’s more.
A former Trump White House lawyer said the evidence against the former president over his handling of classified documents was now “overwhelming” and would “last an antiquity”, after new charges were filed in the case on Thursday.
New charges. New charges!
“I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity,” Ty Cobb told CNN. “This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming.”
In June, the special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 counts regarding his handling of classified records after leaving the White House.
On Thursday, in a superseding indictment filed in a Florida court, four more charges were outlined. A second Trump staffer, the Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira, was charged, alongside Walt Nauta, Trump’s valet. Nauta previously pleaded not guilty.
Trump was accused of attempting to destroy evidence and inducing someone else to destroy evidence. He also faces a new count under the Espionage Act, for keeping a document about US plans to attack Iran which he memorably discussed on tape.
I missed the superseding indictment. Good news. Also disgusting news that he’s dragged yet another powerless underling down with him.
Surely there must be some way, if Trump is found guilty as charged, for him to serve his time while carrying out his normal presidential duties. For example. the Oval Office could be converted into a jail cell, with bars on the windows and guards patrolling outside. Mar-a-Lago could be surrounded by a penitentiary wire fence, together with a moat full of Florida’s fiercest alligators.
Even better: convert an existing jail. Maybe call it ‘the Stormy Daniels Presidential Penitentiary’ to ease the public image problems. Stuff like that.
The Trump lawyers just need to think outside the square; a bit differently from the way they usually do.
Also:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/trump-indictment-the-boss-and-his-botched-coverup
Are the merits of an indictment based on their longevity? What does “last an antiquity” mean exactly?
@twiliter #3
It means it will stay with Trump like an Israeli antiquity.,
@twiliter#3
Looking back from some future standpoint back into the antiquity that is our present, I suspect – one ‘antiquity’ after another:
With apologies to PBS:
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of bold demand,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Dondemandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
A fossilised quiff was also found, whose survival was attributed to the amount of hairspray that had been applied to it in life.