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The Comeuppance of Donald Trump*
“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
— -Revelation 18:2
Thus begins the greatest political eulogy of them all. Hunter S. Thompson’s irreverent, scathing obituary of Richard Nixon, “a man so crooked, his servants had to screw his pants on.”
Yesterday, 10 months to the day of the FBI’s raid and recovery of classified documents at Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump was indicted in Miami on 37 counts in Federal Court, including conspiracy, obstruction of justice, making false statements, (lying) and the Espionage Act. He will be booked and arraigned on Tuesday.
For all the screaming about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s seeming timidity about charging the former (and perhaps future) President*, Garland allowed Special Council Jack Smith to do his job.
Yes, we should get off Garland’s case (and Fani Willis’ as well). He appointed the right man for the right job to do the right thing. Whenever I remember the Ford Pardon, I am reminded of two people — Gerald ‘Jerry’ terHorst, Ford’s press secretary, who resigned the day after the pardon, went back to Grand Rapids and never spoke to Ford again, and Ford himself, who ruefully told his golfing partners…
