Interesting; same energy here:No agency for Trump in NYT homepage headline. It’s DOJ doing this to the “nation”. pic.twitter.com/WdwCdIQd0E
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) June 9, 2023
As McCarthy points out, the charges against the former president should give his defenders pause and that analogies to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's national security issues are grossly misplaced.
More to the point, McCarthy suggested that the "witch hunt" Trump has been ranting about is non-operative since the damning information about his treatment of sensitive government documents came from his own lawyers who were employed to defend him.
He wrote, "Now, since we’re hearing a lot, and we’re going to hear a lot more, about selective prosecution, about the sense that the 'boxes hoax' is the 'biggest witch hunt of all time,' understand this: The evidence of this soliloquy — wherein it was Trump-splained that a 'great job' by a lawyer entails making incriminating evidence disappear and taking the fall for it so the client escapes jeopardy — does not come from Donald Trump’s enemies."
Noting that Trump attorney Evan Corcoran stuck by the former president after he learned he "had been had" with regard to the hiding of the documents the FBI was forced to recover, McCarthy wrote, "Corcoran was not trying to hurt Trump, even though Trump had thought nothing of putting the lawyer’s livelihood at risk. Corcoran provided the lurid testimony reflected in the indictment — including Trump’s suggestions that he falsely tell the FBI and grand jury that he did not have documents marked classified, and that he 'pluck' out of a package of documents responsive to the subpoena 'anything really bad in there' — because the law required him to, not because he wanted to."
No agency for Trump? Corcoran was forced to testify because the DOJ had evidence of criminal activity serious enough to breach the attorney-client privilege. It is not appreciated enough outside lawyer circles what a destruction of norms (see what I did there?) that is. Nor, for that matter, just how many tools democracy has at its disposal to protect itself. Trump is not an “existential” threat to us and our system of government. Trump is what he has always been: a toddler with a shotgun. As with our gun laws, some think this toddler should keep his gun.
The rest of us know better. And we know who to hold responsible. It ain’t Trump’s former lawyers.
The old gray drab is how I think of the NYT, and those who have faith in it nyt-wits.
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