I'm just sad that federal mugshots aren't made public.

This is gonna be wild... the feds hardly ever lose.

With that, I'm very curious to see the fallout should he be convicted.

The whataboutism will be endless as well

He's just a walking blizzard of dishonesty.

I work with many people who are so upset over this, calling it injustice and how horrible that we choose to prosecute Trump when we should instead be jailing Hillary, Harris, and Biden.

I bite my tongue and don’t say anything but it’s so frustrating.

We need one of those mod appliable (or vote-appliable?) "Misleading title" or "headline altered" tags maybe

This is a bigger deal. These federal charges are way more serious than what he's facing in New York.

This is a bigger deal. Telling authorities you don't have top secret classified documents at your residence and allowing them to search certain rooms and then having them come back later with a warrant and finding them hidden in a bathroom (that they weren't allowed into originally) is really really bad.

It makes his other charge of using campaign donations for personal reasons look like jaywalking.

He was processed in New York, too. I'm going to guess that he's going to go through this process at least once more (in Georgia). I don't think he'll need to be fingerprinted and processed again if there are other federal charges while these are pending, but charges related to Jan. 6 might change his bail or conditions of release.

This is the biggest deal, imo. Having nuclear secrets, audio of him admitting he was breaking the law - and the public knowing about that, to me says they have much more ammo they'll be bringing to light in trial. I think he's screwed. I don't want to hold my breath, but this seems like it will really take him down.

Meanwhile, someone allegedly steals a backpack in NYC and languishes in jail for years, then dies without ever having their trial.

that is so infuriating to me. no one should be above the law; trump and his cronies say the same thing. with so many americans getting profiled and wrongfully arrested and sentenced this makes me beyond angry

So under arrest really means he checked into the courts and said "Yup, I am fighting this legal charge." and walked away.

I hope he flees to Russia

It's in Trump tweet font

It's the original formatting from the news site. And anyway, if I wanted to format it differently, I would have.

No

That would probably depend on which instance you're using.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how this all works.

Being rich isn't as much of a defense when you've pissed off the DoD and there's recorded audio of you admitting you have illegally held nuclear secrets after lying and saying you didn't.

I get the worry though.

He took top secret documents when he left the white house. They don't belong to him, they're meant to be secured in the library of congress or something. Anyway, librarians tried to get them back, he said no, did a bunch of illegal shit (including flashing them around people he wanted to impress) so FBI got involved, raided his place, found more secret documents, special prosecutor was appointed who took ages really nailing the iron clad case together. Now he been arraigned in court facing federal charges. Because Trumps a dumb shit.

There's a LegalEagle video which sums it up: Trump's Bombshell Federal Document Indictment

Essentially,

• Trump took classified information during his time as president and failed to return them
• When asked to return them he failed to comply until forced
• When forced to comply, he still kept many documents the government knew were missing and lied to the government and his lawyers indicating that they were returned
• Was caught on tape admitting that he knew they were classified and that it was wrong for him to have them

The first bullet point apparently happens often (Biden, Pence, Hillary have all done similarly in the past). Trump is singular in that he didn't readily comply with the request for the return of documents and the consequent lies to the government (also illegal).

He was arrested, booked, fingerprinted, and formally charged on 37 counts then released on the condition that he avoid contact with potential witnesses in his upcoming trial.