Trump Probably Broke the Law. But That Law Shouldn t Exist. | The Free Press

Reading through the indictment of Donald Trump, one is tempted to ask if the man wanted to be caught. It reads like a bad comic novel. 

The former president is the bumbling protagonist, scheming with an underling to hide boxes of documents from the FBI and his lawyers. Trump boasts to a writer and publisher that he is showing them a classified document on a tape in which he consented to being recorded.

America s state secrets are stored in a bathroom, a ballroom, and a locker next to a liquor cabinet at Trump s Mar-a-Lago estate. He instructs his lawyers to lie to the FBI. Wouldn t it be better if we just told them we don t have anything here? Trump is quoted telling one of his attorneys.

Savor the irony. Here is someone who campaigned in 2016 on Hillary Clinton s own mishandling of classified information stemming from her use of a private email server as secretary of state. 

Now he s waving around top-secret documents at his Florida resort to impress his guests. In one telling passage, Trump asks one of his lawyers why he can t delete documents the way Clinton s lawyer did during the FBI s investigation into her emails. He apparently asked this a few times.

via www.thefp.com

Eli Lake.