Donald Trump’s Poetic Demise
His downfall is steeped in irony
Things keep getting worse and worse for Donald Trump. A court filing unsealed by a federal judge on September 2nd further revealed the investigation’s extent and gravity into his theft and mishandling of top secret government documents. In the filing, we learned that more than 40 folders with “classified” banners were empty. Unclassified documents were mixed with classified documents. Trump’s passports and personal items were mingled with classified documents in his drawer, directly implicating Trump himself in the mishandling of the documents. At least 18 documents were classified as top secret, the highest classification in the U.S. government. These documents were so classified that the FBI agents that seized and reviewed the documents didn’t have the security clearance to view them.
Some of Trump’s allies have gone so far as to argue that Trump shouldn’t be prosecuted because Hillary Clinton wasn’t charged. A former lawyer for the CIA, who reviewed Clinton’s emails, Brian Greer, debunked this absurd equivalence when asked about it on CNN:
“Yeah, the situations really aren’t comparable. When I was at the CIA, I worked on several espionage cases and, at one point, was privy to most — if not all — the top secret Hillary Clinton emails. I have to be careful how I talk about them, but I can…
