Trump's indictment today

Despite what you think, I'm not jumping for joy

After the 1972 Watergate break-in occurred, it took more than a year for investigators and the public to understand what Richard Nixon and his top aides had been plotting in the Oval Office.  Because Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974, many political pundits were relieved a constitutional crisis had been averted.

Now that Donald Trump has been indicted on various crimes -- including an effort to thwart the peaceful transfer of power and, thus, rob Americans of their right to vote -- it feels to me like I'm in a speeding car heading directly into a concrete wall.  So it is with a heavy heart, I say we aren't simply facing a constitutional crisis, we already are in one.

Hyperbole aside, the former president is now, in my opinion, at the center of the greatest crime ever committed against the nation.  I know Trump is innocent until proven guilty.  I also know once his trial begins, there is no way to know how jurors will decide Trump's fate.  My hope is they will carefully consider the facts as they are presented.  

Let's face it, the future of democracy is at stake.  Will this be the first step of many in an effort to put a pin in our current constitutional crisis?

-DF