In a Miami federal courthouse, Trump pled not guilty to 37 felony counts, including willful retention of national defense information, making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
In 2016, a group of Bush administration alumni and Republican foreign policy establishment heavy hitters came together and issued an open letter, publicly pledging that they would not vote for their party’s nominee, Donald Trump, in the upcoming election.
These officials warned that a Trump presidency would “put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.” They added that then-candidate Trump “would be the most reckless president in American history.”
Now, anyone who knows me knows I am no fan of the Bush administration nor the Republican Party’s “establishment,” but what we’ve learned in the past week makes that letter of theirs — that warning of theirs — look particularly prescient. Prophetic, even.
On Tuesday, in a Miami federal courthouse, Trump pled not guilty to 37 felony counts, including willful retention of national defense information, making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. These are the first federal charges ever brought against a former president. In the stunning indictment unsealed last week, we got a look at just how sensitive some of the classified documents retained by Trump were.
