Today is Saturday, September 3, 2022. The former words of the ex-autocrat-in-training could haunt him when it’s his time to be indicted for charges stemming from his reckless seizure of classified documents and leaving them scattered on the floor of his Palm Beach resort as if they were mere grocery store shopping lists. According to a former Fox News (?) analyst, Dumpf could be charged with the same crimes that he suggested a National Security Agency whistleblower should be executed for. This stunning news is covered in an online Business Insider article by Alia Shoaib entitled “Trump could be charged with crimes he suggested Edward Snowden should be executed for, says former Fox News analyst.”

Thus the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating if Dumpf broke federal laws, including the Espionage Act, by taking government records. In comments made on Twitter and elsewhere, Dumpf said there should be a “death penalty” for Wikileaks founder Assange and that Snowden “should be executed.” Hmmm, if it’s good for Snowden to be put to death, then by the same token, if it could be incontrovertibly proved that Little Donnie did the same exact thing, couldn’t he meet the same fate that he predicted Snowden would face?

Former New Jersey Superior Court judge Andrew Napolitano wrote in an op-ed in the New Jersey Herald that both Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Edward Snowden “stand charged with the very same crimes that are likely to be brought against Trump.” Napolitano indicated that these statutes do not provide for capital punishment, so what Dumpf was suggesting, was not even enforceable.

While the world is still waiting for Dumpf to be charged, Napolitano said that a federal grand jury could indict him for three alleged offenses. They include removing and concealing national defense information, giving the information to those not legally entitled to possess it, and obstruction of justice by failing to return the information.

The two men mentioned by Dumpf in his rantings, Assange and Snowden, are facing charges that include violations of the Espionage Act. Assange is currently in prison in the U.K., fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Snowden, who leaked highly classified information on surveillance, is wanted in this country, but remains in Russia, where he has been granted asylum.

“In his op-ed, Napolitano noted that Dumpf’s claim that he declassified all of the documents he took is irrelevant, as the charges relating to handling national defense information do not require proof of classification.”

Former judge Napolitano was a legal analyst for Fox News for 24 years before parting ways in 2021.

The extent of how bad it looks for the former president is the new blockbuster revelation of how Dumpf intermingled top-secret documents with magazine covers and personal items at his Mar-a-Lago estate, which could be presented as damning evidence at his trial should the DOJ indict him. Even his own former personal attorney general and lapdog, William Barr, denounced the Golden Idol for his seizure of the classified documents and the recklessness he used among these highly classified documents. Barr is certainly not defending Dumpf now!

Anyway, it’s getting late here and it’s tiring just to enumerate the many ways the ex-president has endeared himself to strongmen leaders both living and deceased. Trump is definitely a clear and present danger to the foundations of liberty in this country. He must be forever stopped in any attempt to regain power in 2024!

Today I was able to meet my good friend “Harold” and his wife “Rachel” at the New York “Hysterical” Society, as Harold refers to it, between 76th and 77th Streets and Central Park West. My trip to the museum was ghastly because of the numerous changes experienced on lines that I needed to take, particularly the E train. When I left the apartment around 12:20, I never thought it would take over an hour to get to the site, but it did. My first problem was that the E I was on was going on the F line, so I couldn’t get off at Seventh Avenue. I got off at the 47th-50th Street stop and waited for a B that didn’t come. My next mistake was taking a D train that zoomed through tunnel after tunnel, never stopping at 81st Street. The train eventually stopped at 125th Street, where I had to board an A train that did stop on 81st Street. I had to ask a female conductor to make sure this train made local stops.

I finally got to the museum around 2, and I waited on the steps of the museum for my friends. I had enough time to write a letter to the Daily News in which I took offense at a previous letter of a delusional writer who believed Democrats were waging war on Dumpf and it was his opinion that Dumpf did a “damn good job” during his one term in office. What is this guy smoking, one must ask.

Harold approached me first, then I saw Rachel taking up the rear. We then went inside the oldest museum in the city and viewed the exhibits we were interested in seeing. One of the exhibits focused on the champion for marriage equality, Edie Windsor, who secured a landmark victory in the fight for marriage equality when her Supreme Court case forced the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages, which could be under attack in our current conservative court climate. The exhibit was smaller than I thought; it consisted of basically one window showing the LGBTQ+ activist and the actual briefs that were filed in her landmark case. Another more impactful exhibit involved the unprecedented media campaign launched by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in 1937 in an effort to combat the increase in anti-Semitism gripping the United States. This sad exhibit just proves the adage that “history does repeat itself,” as this sickness is manifesting itself once again in our current times. When will humanity ever learn? I wonder.

The three of us stayed in the museum until closing time, which was at 5, and then we walked to the restaurant that I selected for our dinner, which was an Italian eatery called Pappardella, located on Columbus Avenue and 77th Street. I recall eating here last December when my Astoria friend “Seth” and I were seeing Randy Rainbow at the Beacon Theater.

My friends seemed to be satisfied with my choice, as we all ate heartedly. I ordered garlic bread for the table and my main dish was tagliatelle spinachi, which consisted of shrimp, roasted cherry tomato, Calabrian chili and oregano. Harold ordered eggplant parmigiana and he and his wife shared a pizza.

After I walked Harold and Rachel to Broadway, I headed for my used bookstore on 2246 Broadway, right opposite legendary Zabar’s, on 80th Street. I intended to browse the store earlier, before meeting my friends, but I was unable to because of the delays inherent in getting to the museum at a reasonable hour. Now I had some time, but I was shooed out at 7:30 by the woman behind the front desk, who said she was closing early. So I was foiled again!

So have a nice Sunday.

Stay safe and be well.