Trump Faces Prison? and McEnroe Gets It Wrong
Racism in Housing, "House of Dragons" Meh, DeSantis Sucks, and More
This week’s round-up of top news stories will once again come from a variety of sources that I read daily, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Daily Beast, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter as well as Apple News and Flipboard, which gather news from sources from Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Rolling Stone, People and dozens more.
Yeah, it’s a lot. Now that I look at the list, I’m surprised I have the time. But I have many interests and reading all these news sites allows me to sample a large variety of stories and opinions.
Possibility of Obstruction Looms Over Trump After Thwarted Efforts to Recover Documents (NYT)
Summary: The FBI served a search warrant at Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago and found a couple dozen boxes that included classified documents, some marked Top Secret, some included the names of our foreign agents. Even more serious, Trump may face obstruction charges because he and his associates kept the documents for over a year after they were requested to be returned.
My Take: The more information that comes out, the more damning—and illegal—we see that Trump’s actions were. Why take the documents in the first place? Why, when told it was illegal to have them, not return them? And worst of all, what possible logical support can anyone give for these actions?
I know we have to give elected officials some legal latitude given the complex decisions they have to reach. But it is crucial to the survival of any democracy that we do not allow unlimited breaches of the law, especially when they are done with full knowledge that the acts are illegal. That kind of hubris and arrogance must be punished to dissuade future elected officials from abusing their office. In 2016, Trump bragged, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible.” He was right: he continues to take pot shots at our country and his followers, totally oblivious that he’s shooting holes in the boat their families are floating on. They not only cheer him on, but hand him the bullets.