Dear Donald: Hillary, Joe, and Mike Did What They Were Told; You Did Not

 Dear Former President Trump.

We understand from the world of reality and common decency that you feel persecuted because the Special Council, Jack Smith, and his team have indicted you for keeping sensitive documents in unsecured locations at your home at Mar A Largo including one of the bathrooms.

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You are also perplexed that they have also indicted you for your refusing to turn over those documents in a timely manner like the day you left office and do not understand why they raided your home for the documents after you and your team stonewalled the government for over a year when your predecessors turned over their documents on day one.

You are probably further dismayed and feel cornered that former buddies like your Attorney General, Bill Barr, former lawyer Ty Cobb, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have said on numerous occasions that your actions were very very bad.

Barr, as relayed in a recent op-ed by the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, stated to CBS News last month and last week.

"In May, he told CBS News, “It’s very clear that he had no business having those documents.” He explained, “He was given a long time to send them back. And they were subpoenaed. And I’ve said all along that he wouldn’t get in trouble, probably, just for taking them, just as [President] Biden I don’t think is going to get in trouble or [former vice president Mike] Pence is not going to get in trouble.” Barr added, “The problem is what did he do after the government asked for them back and subpoenaed them. And if there’s any games being played there, he’s going to be very exposed.”

After you were indicted, Mr. Barr said of your actions:

"This is not a case of the Department of Justice conducting a witch hunt. … This would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents, but he jerked them around for a year and a half. … There is no excuse for what he did here.”

Your former lawyer, Mr. Cobb, cited in the same Rubin piece, offered:

“I think Trump is in an enormous amount of trouble. This indictment is about as carefully structured and evidentially supported as any indictment in history.”

Your former Transition Chairperson (before vindictive son-in-law Jared Kushner fired him) Chris Christie, in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, stated:

“The fact is that these facts are devastating...The facts that are laid out here are damning in terms of Donald Trump’s conduct, and that’s what I think we as a party should be looking at...The bigger issue for our country is, is this the type of conduct that we want from someone who wants to be president of the United States?”

These are not the words of your political enemies, Donald.

These are the words of the people who once supported and worked for you.

We also understand that you think there is a double standard being applied to you because Hillary, Joe, and Mike have not been indicted.

That is because as your former Attorney General said and history has recorded, Hillary, Joe, and Mike all cooperated with the Justice Department when their document retention cases unfolded.

It is worth repeating that Mr. Barr is right when he said to CBS after you were indicted:

"This would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents, but he jerked them around for a year and a half. … There is no excuse for what he did here.”

You are also, surprise surprise, lying about the 1,850 boxes then-Senator Biden donated to the University of Delaware after he left that upper chamber to become Vice President.

Newsflash: there is nothing wrong with what Senator Biden did with the documents from his Senate Career.

So, Donald, you have no one to blame for this except yourself.

You created this mess and no amount of lying and distractions will change that reality.

Be an adult for the first time in your life and for once take responsibility for your latest transgression.

While you are at it, take responsibility for all the proven allegations against you like knowingly spreading the Big Lie about the 2020 Presidential Elections and encouraging the gullible-deluded MAGA minions that followed you (even though you were not with them) on their domestic terrorist attack on the Nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021.

For once, do what is in the best interests of the country and not the Donald.

Withdraw your candidacy for the 2024 Republican Presidential Nomination, make a plea deal with the Special Counsel, spend some quality time (six months to two years) in a government-paid room with minimum security where you can have visitors like Melania and Stormy, and then go away and never be heard from again.

Sincerely

The World of Reality and Common Decency