Headline in five days:

"We were wrong" says justice department when asked about Trump fleeing to Russia for diplomatic protection.

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

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

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

Well tbh both his ego and his bank account command him to try to run for president again so I don't see him fleeing.

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

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

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.

He's just a walking blizzard of dishonesty.

The whataboutism will be endless as well

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.

The article at least states that he was. But that does not necessarily mean he is in jail.

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).

It's in Trump tweet font

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