Cuff him
Convicting the former president would not be as easy as it might seem, but it could be done.
The cable news shows have been consumed all day with talk about -- well, we may as well coin an acronym for it – YKW, short for you know what.
It’s a measure of how far we’ve fallen as a nation down the Trump rabbit hole that it would take the revelation by the Washington Post that the former president had nuclear secrets in his possession at Mar a Lago, not to mention the need for a search by the FBI to discover this fact, to generate the tsunami of chin scratching and OMGing the commentators and experts have been engaged in all day. You would think that the mere fact that Trump had taken classified documents of any kind from the White House with him to his Florida retreat would have done it. After all, Trump probably expelled several tons of greenhouse gasses accusing Hillary Clinton of having revealed classified information in her emails, a factoid that naturally turned out to be not a fact at all, and that alone made her “unfit for office” in Trump’s estimation.
We have never needed John Belushi more than we need him right now, because the only response to this whole mishigas is his classic, but noooooo…
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