So much of the discussion of all this, going back to the FBI search, has used phrases like "national security" about things like nuclear capabilities and war plans and so on.
Missing has been the source of that information, particularly from abroad.
Often, it's human. Actual people, who are at risk of getting arrested, imprisoned, even executed for because they are choosing to help the U.S.
“He is voluntarily putting our country through this."
“This is vanity run amok. Ego run amok. ... Everyone is blaming the prosecutors. He did this.”
Christie said the indictment by itself is damning ― “the conduct in there is awful” ― but that he also expects that Jack Smith has much, much more information he hasn’t yet revealed. “There’s probably about a third of the evidence they have in that indictment,” he said.
“And sometimes you need strength. You have to have strength, more than just normal strength. And we have to get a change because we’re not going to have a country left.”
Trump on Friday told his millions of followers on his social media site: “SEE YOU IN MIAMI ON TUESDAY!!!” ― reminiscent of his Dec. 19, 2020, Twitter post urging his followers to converge on Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6: “Be there, will be wild!”
Trump will be arraigned on the new indictment at 3 p.m. at the federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday.
In case CNN is looking for questions to ask the coup-attempting former president tonight, here are a few they can use:
After your own campaign’s top staff and your own White House staff told you that you had lost the 2020 election, why did you continue to lie and claim that it was “stolen?”
Today, two and a half years later, you STILL continue to lie about that election. Why are you doing that?
Donald Trump is the only president who used the threat of violence and then actual violence in an attempt to remain in power — the very definition of a coup.
It was the singular unique act of his tenure, truly historic. In 232 years of elections, no other president had done anything remotely close to what Trump did.