Donald Trump is intent on breaking up America, one way or another. He has, through his actions, left the U.S. government no choice but to indict a former President for the first time in its history.
We don’t yet know the specifics of the seven counts he faces in the classified document scandal; it may be until Tuesday until we do. But we do know that Trump has essentially forced the Biden administration to prosecute him in the case, which he calls a “witch-hunt”.
Unfortunately, a large portion of the Republican Party buys into his view, which is likely to further provoke the political crisis that the country has endured ever since Trump came to power in 2016.
Trump is the most polarizing figure in American history. His instincts are those of a despot. He tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election he lost; when that failed he took boxes of classified documents with him to his home in Florida.
Why did he do this? That is the unknown factor here. Did he intend to use the information in those documents to further his plan to overthrow the U.S. electoral system and return himself to power?
It seems far-fetched, the stuff of a Hollywood fantasy-nightmare, but why else would he take that stuff?
We’re going to be learning the answers to some of those questions presumably now through the court case to come.
Let’s hope our democracy is strong enough to withstand the process of bringing this man to justice.
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