Donald Trump has been indicted...again

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     June 9, 2023 Donald Trump's presidential legacy is marked by a lot of firsts. He's the first president elected without [governmental]( or military experience; the first president ever indicted, in a [scheme]( that involved paying off a porn star; and now the first former president to be charged with federal crimes. In case you've been under a rock for the past 12 hours, Trump has been indicted once again. This time for taking classified documents to Florida after he left office in January 2021. As my colleague Abigail Weinberg [reported](, Trump has been charged with 37 counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and willful retention of classified information. And in the hours before the grand jury indictment, multiple news outlets [obtained audio]( transcripts of a recording of Trump bragging about not only retaining said documents, but also failing to declassify them. As my colleague Inae Oh reported, this definitely undermines Trump's previous claims that he, as president, could declassify anything he wanted "just by thinking about it." You can read the transcript, in context, in the extensive indictment handed up by the federal grand jury in Miami. Last night, in typical fashion, he took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to break the news and hasn't stopped posting since. Here's his most recent rant on the [subject](: Biden moved his Boxes all over the place, including to Chinatown and up to his lawyer’s office in Boston. Why isn’t deranged Jack Smith looking at that? Also, I supplied them openly, and without question, security tape from Mar-a-Lago. I had nothing to hide, nor do I now. Nobody said I wasn’t allowed to look at the personal records that I brought with me from the White House. There’s nothing wrong with that…. As this madness unfolds, I've been pretty perturbed but not surprised watching Republicans respond to the news of Trump's indictment. Of course, the usual suspects have contested the Department of Justice's decision. Rep. Kevin McCarthy said he'd stand with Trump in a [tweet]( shortly after the indictment's announcement. Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis [vowed]( to "bring accountability" to the DOJ if he's elected. Virginia's Glenn Youngkin [called]( the charges "unprecedented" and said it was a "sad day for democracy." Mike Pence and Nikki Haley haven't responded to the charges at all, according to [Politico](. But there's one Republican who actually condemned Trump's alleged actions. Mitt Romney sharply stated that Trump "brought these charges upon himself." This is a pretty significant pivot from his statements on Trump's last indictment, when Romney [called]( Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case an "overreach." 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