The Song Remains the Same

     Arraignments aren't supposed to be sexy or even interesting. And I really wish the MSM would stop trying to put lipstick on the pig of Trump's lengthening list of indictments. Yes, yes, first president or former criminally indicted, yada yada. But, as with Manhattan and the E. Jean Carroll case, he was in, he glared at reporters, he was out. The arraignment, obviously, is not the trial any more than the wedding is the marriage.

     That said, there are troubling gaps and inexplicable latitudes granted by the DOJ. Firstly, there wasn't even a mention of the DOJ showing the slightest amount of interest in the fax copier that was in the same storage room as literally dozens of banker boxes of classified documents. Why's that so important.

     Well, for starters, fax copiers nowadays have hard drives and hard drives have memories. Memories that contain evidence of what was copied, how many copies were made of each and what was faxed and to whom. The DOJ apparently has a blind spot regarding that.

     Secondly, there was the extremely forgiving bond arrangement and travel restrictions and, by that, I mean there were none of the latter. Despite Trump being the world's likeliest flight risk, he has no restrictions on national or international travel. And the bond arrangement? Well, all he had to do was promise not to commit any more crimes, otherwise it'll be revoked.

     Anyone who'd ever heard of the parable of the scorpion and the frog will know how well that'll end up.

     Then there's the "accidental flood" that happened at Mar a Lago. The maintenance worker who'd done it was never named in the indictment nor was even given a label or designation. To Jack Smith's team, it's as if this suspicious flood that damaged security camera servers never happened.

     Yet, they do have the timeline. Here's part of it:

May 22, 2022: After spending 34 minutes in the storage room, Nauta moves one box out.

May 24, 2022: Nauta moves three boxes out.

May 30, 2022: Nauta moves 50 boxes out.

June 1, 2022: Nauta moves 11 boxes out.

June 2, 2022: Nauta moves 30 boxes back.

June 2, 2022: Evan Corcoran conducts his review.

     This obviously means several things: One, Walt Nauta, Trump's ad hoc "body man", was doing Trump's bidding in playing a shell game with Evan Corcoran, Trump's own lawyer. He never gave Corcoran a serious chance to find the documents he was supposedly tasked with finding. And that's because he wanted Corcoran to sign off on an official document attesting that all the documents were turned over to the DOJ. But, being a lawyer's lawyer, Corcoran does two things Trump doesn't expect or like: He takes copious notes that turn out to be Jack Smith's key to Trump's Magic Kingdom and tries to get Christina Bobb to sign off on the document and, to her credit, she gave herself a fig leaf that probably saved her law license by essentially saying, "These are all we have... to the best of my knowledge."

    The next several months will be entertaining, indeed.