Historic Arraignment

I was going to post this blog without a photo because I didn't want a photo of the indicted ex-President facing me every time I opened it.  But I just found this New Yorker cartoon and I like it!

Most of my blog posts are about family life--day to day occurrences and highlights of our trips and holidays.  Occasionally I have posted about events going on in the world around us and then the word unprecedented gets used.  CBS news used the phrase I have put in my subject line as its lead to tonight's news. Today's news is "unprecedented" and historic and sad. 

Former president Donald Trump was indicted in a Manhattan courtroom today on 34 counts of falsifying business records.  The indictment charged him with paying a lawyer retainer fees when they were actually repayment for money the lawyer had given to a porn star to keep her story of an affair with Trump quiet.  Supposedly Trump was signing checks during his first year in office as payment to Michael Cohen, his former attorney who is testifying against him.  Today's indictment also spoke of a second affair that was kept quiet and payment to a doorman who told of a child  fathered by Trump--and that third story supposedly turned out to be untrue. All of this was to suppress stories that might have affected the 2016 election which put Trump into office. 

This story is going to go on for months. The trial in New York will not be until next January.  By that time, Trump may be indicted in Georgia for trying to change the results of the election (asking the secretary of state on a recorded phone call to find around 11,000 votes) and indicted in Washngton, DC for inciting the January 6 assault on the Capitol.  And then there are the classified documents that were found at his home in Mar-a-Lago although that may be a weaker case except for his insistence that all documents were found when the FBI found more after they had a subpoena and did a search.  Documents have also been found at President Biden's home and former Vice-president Pence's home although they both were cooperative with the FBI looking for material.  

Trump is using this indictment to raise money by selling t-shirts with his photo and "not guilty" across the front--for $47 because he wants to be the 47th president of the United States--as he has already declared his candidacy.  He has raised millions of dollars already.