Africa-Press – Mauritius. On Tuesday the 13th of June much of the attention in the US was caught up in a historic first: the arrest and charging in a federal court in South Florida of former President Donald Trump on 37 counts, going from obstruction of justice, retention of classified top secret documents and, much to the shock of Trump and his legal team, of related crimes under the Espionage Act.
Two months ago, Trump was arraigned and convicted by a New York grand jury in a civil case of sexual misconduct, and by this summer, he is also expected to be arraigned in Georgia about his attempts to pressure Republican election officials to « find him enough votes » to be declared the winner there.
As for his role in inciting the Jan 6 riots in the US capital by a wild armed mob causing some policemen’s deaths and considerable trauma, we may yet hear if that could also lead soon to other formal charges.
Not even former President Nixon of the sinister Watergate fame had such an ignominious series of legal impediments befall a departed President no longer enjoying the immunity of office.
The pictures shared in the indictment by the Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, of boxes of documents, many concerning the USA’s most sensitive military or nuclear preparedness secrets, piled about or stored in closets and bathrooms at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and golf resort, should have been enough to give acute hair-raising pangs of revulsion to a Republican Party (GOP) traditionally attached to the military strength and national security of the US and, even its now aghast Western allies in NATO.
Can they ever trust the US with state secrets or classified intel information they wonder at the sight of these carelessly stored and hidden boxes of classified documents at such an insecure location as a golf resort which international spies are known to haunt?
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