During Donald Trump’s last year as President, he sent representatives to several states asking if they would put his likeness on a mountain. His first choice was Mount Rushmore since it is a National Park and he had appointed the Interior Secretary. He though that would be enough. It wasn’t! His next choice was Stone Mountain in Georgia. He thought he had been racist enough to be up there with the Confederate Generals. Apparently not enough, because they also declined.

            Then being an extremely deep thinker he saw he had a golf course in Florida. So his team is looking for a suitable location to get his likeness on a prominent mountain. He thinks it should be at least the scale of crazy horse to match his importance. Not having a flair for geography of Florida, or anywhere else he seems unaware that the highest point in Florida is only 345 feet above sea level.

            My last trip to Florida was shortly after Hurricane Andrew. Andrew had devastated the area West of Miami. The debris had been piled in long ridges about 200 to 300 feet high that could be seen for miles. Assuming they are still there, I think I would contribute to have his face put on that waste heap.

            Why was former President Donald Trump’s taking of all those secret documents from the White House so egregious? Some of those documents are so secret that less than one hundred people even know what information is on the sensitive ones. Of course that was before Trump would show them to friends and visitors at parties and meetings.

            The following is the chain of events: Trump’s people included many files of confidential documents in the personal boxes to be moved to Mar-a-Lago. Whether the National Archives found some listing or was told by people who knew he had stolen them necessitating contact with his lawyers. Some documents were turned over. The National Archives were told by someone that more existed. Another meeting got more boxes and signed assurances no more existed. They were then told many more existed so the FBI obtained a search warrant and recovered the rest. Trump now wants to know who in his entourage the leak is.

            Before condemning the Justice Department remember a Chinese spy was caught trying to enter Mar-a-Lago last year. How did she know something was there? Was she the first spy to attempt or was she the first to get caught? How many other people from other countries haven’t succeeded or DID and we don’t know? Those documents, especially the nuclear ones, are worth millions which means international gangs might sell the pictures of those unguarded documents. Of course Trump had been showing them to many people for his ego but there are many financial possibilities for him to use them.

            We have locked many people up for doing less with documents of less importance. As the Attorney General said “No one is above the law.”

            What a decision Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has to make in the next few months. No former President has ever been tried for a crime. AG Garland may well be forced to make the decision to form a grand jury to try former President Donald Trump for several crimes including treason.

            Garland has to decide if he tries Trump, what the reaction will be from Trump’s deceived followers and is it worth the possible violence. Should he hold off until after the mid-term election? What should he request in the pre-trial negotiations for Trump’s punishment? The possibilities are jail time, home confinement, parole with no politicking, social media, interviews, public meetings or something else. All would involve public statements about how and why he conned people into believing “The Big Lie” and other conspiracies put forth by his friends and others.

            If he decided to go the max and put Trump in jail, where would it be and where would his security detail be? Perhaps the Secret Service agents who have been covering for him should be his protective detail inside the prison. There is a difference between physical protection and criminal activity like destroying records and tests.

            The Attorney General is supposed to be independent and Garland has shown he agrees with that policy. Whichever path he decides to take will probably be expedited to the Supreme Court where Trump placed three Justices – one of which is Clarence Thomas. Thomas is sure to overturn any conviction of Trump.

            Whichever way Garland goes it will make him the most historic Attorney General since Mitchell.