In the Trump era, there are two facts every voter should know to enable intelligent decisions.
One, when the powers-that-be granted the President all his powers, they never once considered a President like Donald Trump.
Two, Donald Trump is just plain stupid.
Take, for example, his incredibly stupid decision to take hundreds of pages of classified documents with him to Mar-a-Lago. He has never explained why he did that. It is quite likely he doesn't know. Just something to do? In any case, that remarkably incomprehensible decision has caused him nothing but grief, and he might be indicted.
The
Wall Street Journal explains his folly. "Boxes retrieved from former President
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home early this year contained more than 184 classified documents,
including some deemed top secret or derived from clandestine human-intelligence sources, according to
a heavily redacted affidavit released Friday laying out the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s justification for its
extraordinary search of the Florida estate in early August.
"The document spanning 38 pages, 24 of them fully or partially blacked out, said there was “probable cause to believe that additional documents” containing classified national defense information and presidential records remained on the premises and
“also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction” would be found there. A separate document said
investigators relied on accounts from “a significant number of civilian witnesses” before searching the home.
"The affidavit was released on court order
almost three weeks after FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago and carted away more than
two dozen boxes including 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were meant to be accessible only in special high-security facilities, according to
a search warrant made public by the Florida court that approved it. The search followed months of correspondence by the National Archives and Records Administration to secure Trump administration records."
The Republican Party has captured the minds of those who live in the rural counties of America. The voters are mostly farmers, ranch hands, and rural shopkeepers. They lack education and they are not well informed. Most of what they know about politics is by word of mouth.
"The former president has seen his standing in the GOP strengthen since the Aug. 8 search as he considers a 2024 challenge to President Biden," the WSJ.