Station Selected:
Starting our second year on the broadcast networks of Civic Media with one of the
most significant events ever in law, government, and the aspiration for justice in
America—namely, the first time in our nation’s history that a former President has
been charged with federal crimes. Focusing on the 38 allegations against him and
his assistant-bodyguard for withholding national defense information, concealing
the possession of classified documents, engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct
justice, and making false statements to the federal agents investigating the case.
Commentary highlighting, first, the significant national security threat described in
the indictment—including exposure to individuals (and arguably even large groups
of people) of the secrets of some of our most critical federal agencies, assigned
responsibility both domestically and overseas with keeping us safe. As a principal,
companion theme in the charging document—historical and recent confirmation
(virtually all from the mouth of the former President himself) confirming his
appreciation for the nature of the classified documents, his knowledge that his
retention and display of them is prohibited, his intent in taking them from the
White House and retaining them at Mar-a-Lago, and his contempt for the system of
rules and protocols that he understood and affirmatively chose to disregard.
Among the oral recitations of highly incriminating behavioral accounts in the
indictment, conversations (recorded and committed to writing) between Donald
Trump and various media members, PAC representatives, and personal staff—all
revealing bold and brazen conduct—along with the directed movements of the
many boxes in and throughout his resort residence, most tellingly in an attempt to
prevent his own attorney from identifying, reporting on, and disgorging them to the
requesting offices of the United States long before the infamous search warrant of
August of 2022. All of that and other alleged criminal conduct prompting
substantive lies and false statements to the Justice Department and its agents.
Finally, in response to spectacularly insightful questions of callers, observations
and perspectives on the venue-related reason for charging in South Florida, the
likely trappings of the arraignment and plea hearing of the coming week, and the
likely obligations of the government prosecutors to offer to the trial jury an
explanation of why the former President acted as he did—perhaps out of raw
arrogance and unbridled bravado, all to the harm of our nation and its security.
[Next week: Follow up observations on the criminal prosecution, along with
commentary on the significant decisions of the Supreme Court in recent days.]
