[Onkel Neal]

Trump is nailed dead to rights, and what matters most of all is that it’s not on some technical offense. What he was doing, before only a physical raid on Mar-a-Lago stopped this madness, turns out to have been less an act of mere carelessness than an active threat to United States national security, one fueled solely by Trump’s demented behavior and sense of self-entitlement.

Trump’s Indictment Is Worse Than You Think It Is

Fingers crossed.

The case begins the day Trump left office with boxes and boxes of items — some entirely personal but many highly classified — and took them to his Mar-a-Lago estate. The third paragraph of the indictment is damning as to the nature of the material Trump absconded with: “The classified documents TRUMP stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities, of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.” Those are not mere keepsakes.

There is a moment in the indictment, a recorded conversation between Trump and a staffer, that must be preserved here for posterity, because it is his legal epitaph:

TRUMP: This totally wins my case, you know

STAFFER: Mm-hm.

TRUMP: Except that it is, like, highly confidential.

Caught on tape destroying the legal argument he has been content to farm out to his loudest defenders for months: That’s our Trump.