"The Godfather, if it was re-enacted by a five-year-old"

How it started:

He didn’t do it, but if he did do it, it isn’t a crime, and if it is a crime, it isn’t that bad, and if it is that bad, everyone does it, and if everyone doesn’t do it, what about Hunter’s laptop?

— John Collins (@Logically_JC) June 9, 2023

How it's going: 

Here is the link for the indictment and here is an excellent article from the Lawfare blog about what it means- United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta. 

TL;DR? Here's The Business Insider summary - Trump Used Bumbling "Godfather"-Like Tactics To Hide Docs From FBI:

...The Justice Department's indictment against the former president depicts blundering, incompetent attempts to cover up clear violations of the Espionage Act, as well as obstructing justice by "suggesting that his attorney hide or destroy documents," along with other alleged crimes.

To veteran national security lawyer Kel McClanahan, it brought to mind "the Godfather — if it was reenacted by a five-year-old."

"I found it hilarious that some of his most incriminating things were recorded by his lawyers," McClanahan told Insider. "Beautiful."

..."Everything in here was designed to craft the narrative that this is a kingpin who knowingly broke the law, endangered national security, endangered nuclear weapon security, endangered other countries' national security — and his faithful butler carried this all out for him and is going to go down with him because he refused to come clean about his boss's criminal dealings," McClanahan said. "You can't write this in a plot of a procedural."

Trump could have easily avoided criminal charges by simply handing over the documents in the first place, Jon Sale, a former federal prosecutor, told Insider.

If you're wondering about what those confidential documents are, Matt Tait is investigating exactly this on his substack What Are The Classified Documents?

Here's more comment:

I don’t think enough is being said on Junior, Kimberly Gargoyle, dum dum Eric & Laura Trump lying their asses off screaming on Fox News that ALL the classified documents were kept in a ‘secure’ storage room when they knew full well they were strewn all the fuck over Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/nuM8OOUf5R

— Hadley Sheley (@HadleySheley) June 10, 2023

Trump and nut jobs on the right calling their MAGA mob into the streets in order to show their strength. Instead, it will show their weakness. That’s the sad irony of the chickenshit GOP pols afraid to criticize their traitorous leader. He has nothing like the power they fear.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) June 10, 2023

man shut the fu ck up. If you didn’t violate DOJ policy with your dumb anti-Clinton stunt Trump never would’ve been president and none of this would’ve happened. https://t.co/InuCIs9jKA

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) June 10, 2023

It will never not be totally fucking hilarious to me that trump is being prosecuted for the same shit that he signed into law because he wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton, who is happily watching all this, sipping wine, and laughing her ass off.

— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) June 10, 2023

Here's an hysterically funny tweet thread about the indictment:

I'll be honest--
b/c i really DO lean into naivete sometimes. it's difficult for me to assume the worst from ppl, even when they have done all of the worst things.

so this wholllllle time, i've been thinking, "wonder why he didn't give back those docs. he's probably lost them."

— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 9, 2023

this was a DELIBERATE and CONCERTED effort to remove the most sensitive docs the country has, and KEEP them.........and then SHOW THEM TO PPL AT HIS LEISURE WHILE *ACKNOWLEDGING* THAT HE WAS NEITHER SUPPOSED TO HAVE THEM OR SHOW THEM....

— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 9, 2023

and TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS.........DOCUMENTS HAVING TO DO WITH DEFENSE PLANS, MILITARY CAMPAIGNS, NUKES, YOU NAME IT.....DOCUMENTS *CLEARLY MARKED* "TOP SECRET" AND "SECRET" AND "CONFIDENTIAL" AND TWO OTHER DESIGNATIONS I'D NEVER EVEN HEARD OF BEFORE TODAY...BUT WHICH APPARENTLY

— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 9, 2023

AND AS IF *THAT* WEREN'T ENOUGH.....the Archives asked this MF fifty-leven times to give all this stuff back. and 45 would be all, "I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING I GOT. DAMN. SHIT. THERE'S NOTHING HERE."

THEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS AIDES MOVE THE BOXES......

— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 9, 2023

BUT WHAT'S WILDER STILL............IS THAT THIS MF HAD LAWYERS WHO WERE LIKE, "Fam. For serious. You need to turn in ANYTHING that you have that is a file and belongs to the US Government. DEAD. ASS."

— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 9, 2023

and one lawyer was all....... pic.twitter.com/UfkOYSvVWv

— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 9, 2023

THEN when the lawyer shrugs and indicates that there's still some chester copperpot level shit in the box he's carrying, 45 MIMES taking out the secret stuff and disposing of it.....
MIMES.

WITH HIS WEE HANDS.

— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) June 9, 2023

And Fooler continues with more, oh so much more! 

 So now Trump thinks he can orchestrate Miami version of Jan 6

Insurrection 2.0 announced by Trump. This time we will be ready, including reserving more prison space… pic.twitter.com/zv4j2grwt5

— Tom Chapman 🇺🇸 (@realTomChapman) June 10, 2023

If Traitor Trump is hoping for a repeat of January 6 on Tuesday, he’s going to be sadly disappointed. Only a half dozen people showed up to support him when he was indicted in NYC, and the turnout will likely be just as low in Miami. pic.twitter.com/WcIm481l4T

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) June 10, 2023

So Trump’s arraignment next Tuesday happens to fall on the same day as National Axe Throwing Day. 🪓

— TG ☕️ (@TG22110) June 10, 2023