Trump faces federal justice
Donald Trump, the daily protagonist of accusations and scandals, has been handed his most challenging hour of accountability as he embarks on a new election campaign to regain office. Searches of his luxurious Florida residence - the largest in the state - have provided ample evidence of a breach of laws protecting official secrets and confidentiality during his four-year stint as US president. In light of the evidence found, the Justice Department has taken the historically unprecedented step of prosecuting a former president for the first time for a federal crime.
The indictment immediately recalled how often during the election campaign that brought him to the White House he falsely accused his competitor Hillary Clinton of revealing official secrets without evidence and, in any case, of far less importance than those he will now be shown to have incurred and sequestered in order to conceal with all the aggravation. A total of seven specific charges have been brought against him, supported by the documents discovered in the eight-acre Mar-a-Lago mansion. These include unpublished and confidential letters with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with whom he met to the general surprise of international diplomacy and to no avail.
The rest are reports on defence matters, with important secrets and false declarations, as well as equally secret reports on the administration of justice. Some of the documents and reports that he reproduces as his own interventions have been proven to be false. On Tuesday, he is due to appear in federal court in Miami to be officially informed of the charges against him. His lawyer has been quick to assert that the former president is innocent of all the charges against him. But the evidence revealed by major US newspapers is irrefutable.
Given these revelations and his expected appearance on Tuesday, he will await his federal trial in a few weeks' time and, if convicted, will be sentenced to several years in prison. It would be a record in the history of the forty-six presidents the United States has had. He, however, has reacted by confirming that this new scandal, and foreseeable conviction, will not slow down his campaign to participate in next year's elections to regain his mandate, which, with the backing of his fans, he intends to avenge the fraud he believes was stolen from him in the past elections, something that in no case was proven either in the recounts or in the complaints to the courts.