Word: Documents

 As soon as Donald Trump was revealed to have had a classified document that likely contained plans to attack Iran in a worst-case scenario, it was only a matter of time before Jack Smith could be comfortable in thinking that he had Trump with the goods.  Trump has been indicted on 37 counts involving willful retention of national defense, violating the Espionage Act, and obstruction of justice.  The cavalier manner in which Trump handled the documents also put or may have put the national security of the American people at risk.  You can read all about it here.

The storage of documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago complex, which includes confidential information shared with the United States by its allies and casually friendly nations, may make such countries think twice about sharing any information with us.  Some of the information was stored in the ballroom of Mar-a-Lago in great proximity to the liquor cabinet - and remember, Mar-a-Lago is a publicly accessible country club with hotel-style guest rooms and a spa.  This is much different than, say, if classified documents had been found at Reagan's Rancho del Cielo ranch in Santa Barbara or Obama's Washington home. Similarly, no one could have accessed Dwight D. Eisenhower's Pennsylvania farm when Ike and Mamie live there after his Presidency.  It only became open to the public in 1980, after both Eisenhower and his wife were dead. 

And yet most Republicans still support Trump.

Speaking of historic sites, I hope Mar-a-Lago - ironically, a mansion that cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post left to the government as a presidential residence but was turned to her foundation because President Carter thought it would cost too much to maintain - is demolished after Trump dies or goes to prison (whichever comes first), much like Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin was destroyed.