Former President Donald Trump was indicted last week on 37 federal charges tied to his possession and mishandling of classified documents.
Critics assert Trump betrayed his oath to uphold the Constitution.
But the uproar ignores how federal secrecy gone wild is spawning a caste system that betrays our democracy — and makes political lies almost irrefutable.
The media are struggling mightily to create a good vs. evil storyline from Washington’s latest sordid saga.
A New York Times editorial ludicrously contrasted Trump’s behavior to that of “responsible public servants like Mr. Biden.”
The Times neglected to back up that claim with a witness statement from the Corvette in President Biden’s Delaware garage, where the FBI found classified documents stashed in December.
According to most media coverage, the federal charges are about Trump’s false statements, his buffoonish squirreling away boxes of documents, and his moronic twaddle — such as claiming a president can declassify a document “even by thinking about it.”