LA Times: The Mar-a-Lago search could signal the end of another 'long national nightmare'

[onetexan]

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-08/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-warrant-search

Why now? What explains the thunderous revelation that the FBI — doubtless with the approval of those at the highest levels of the Department of Justice — executed a search warrant on Monday at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence? The apparent focus was documents the former president removed from the White House. A very plausible answer is that a charge related to official documents could swiftly and cleanly serve as the basis for a satisfactory resolution of the pox on the country that is Donald Trump.

A more straightforward, prosaic answer to why the warrant was served is that the Department of Justice has assembled evidence of probable cause that evidence of a crime would be found at Trump's Florida home...
If Trump were convicted of this charge, the plain meaning of the law would permanently take him out of commission as a candidate for president, and all talk of his 2024 candidacy would be dead in the water. Likewise, all the support and polarization that the mere possibility of another Trump presidency raises...
Trump would be duly punished. Were he exiled from office, it would remove at a stroke the most dangerous and polarizing aspect of his continued defiance of the rule of law. To adapt the words of President Ford when he pardoned Nixon, Monday’s Mar-a-Lago search could well be the beginning of a fitting and broadly — if not universally — accepted end to our latest “long national nightmare.”
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Couldn't happen faster. Gotta hand it to Merrick Garland..good timing! Next? the Con in handcuffs please!

[Walleye]

1. This is why the right wing is so pissed. Their dreams of another Trump administration are dying

[EYESORE 9001]

2. That 'long national nightmare' didn't end with Nixon's resignation

It just took a breather and reorganized its forces. To put an end to this nightmare requires actual punishment for the guilty with no room to weasel out of avoiding consequences.

[onetexan]

5. Unfortunately that's true. I have neighbors who believe Nixon was wrongly prosecuted.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. continued with ron raygun . bush and bush lite .

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Could be temporary.

Even if TFG were to be indicted, tried, and convicted (good luck with that jury nullification), a future Republican President will pardon him.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. He could easily be convicted in Washington DC.

And regarding a pardon, that should motivate us to turn out in force in 2024. I don’t share your pessimism.

[ariadne0614]

4. IMHO, Ford's pardon was the beginning of a through line leading to the nightmare of tRump.

This time, I hope we've learned that zero accountability is not the answer. Lock him up.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

https://archive.ph/Y8Sy0

[Hekate]

8. If we fall for the "done and dusted" narrative, the nightmare will never be over...

Justice must be seen to be done, all the way up. Prison sentences must be served by very high-level people, generals for instance, CEOs, and on into the White House — not just the schmucks in the street.

Make it so.