And it finally happened! Trump has been indicted on the mishandling of classified documents, and obstruction of justice, and I'm so incredibly happy about it. At the same time I do realize that there will be an outpouring of support from his insane followers who insist he can do no wrong as well as his backers in Congress, but even without being a lawyer I read the indictment thinking "This is really bad." 

There has been precedent in other countries, even in Western governments, where the former head of the country was prosecuted and sent to jail, so the fact that the USA has never done so isn't that large of a stumbling block. Even Nixon would almost certainly have gone to jail if Ford hadn't pardoned him, so that's an almost-precedent and many laws that were passed after that debacle are the ones being brought to bear here, appropriately. The irony that Roger Stone, the guy with the Nixon back tattoo, was one of Trump's mentors just makes it that much more delicious and fitting as he learned part of how to commit crimes from the one who idolized Nixon as being above the law. Now Trump will be brought to justice as much as he can from internalizing that there are no laws to follow.

Of course who knows what will actually happen, but with a 21 day projected window of a trial listed in the indictment it might be rather swift. There are so, SO many times where I wish I could read a history book from the future to find out the outcome, but life doesn't work that way. Time to buckle up and watch the news along with everyone else.