The DOJ’s indictment watch against Donald Trump is now officially in effect

| 9:09 am EDT September 1, 2022
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For months, even as the DOJ was setting a bear trap for Donald Trump and his legal team that ensured they’d have no legal defense whatsoever once the classified documents were seized from Trump’s home, we had to hear the media and pundit class go on and on about how the DOJ was either “being timid” or “doing nothing.”

Now that this notion has been proven overwhelmingly wrong, some within the media and pundit class have – to their credit – come around to the reality that Trump is going down. But with so many media and pundits having built their personal brands around using fear and outrage to keep you tuned in, some of them aren’t missing a beat in finding a new way to get things wrong.

This new forty page DOJ filing doesn’t give away when the DOJ plans to indict and arrest Trump. But it does give away that this criminal case over these classified documents is indeed ready to go.

The DOJ could bust Trump tomorrow or next year, depending on its overall strategy with regard to other unrelated charges it might also be planning to bring against Trump. The timing is anyone’s guess, and we’ll just have to wait to see when the hammer drops.

Not that some folks in the media and pundit class are willing to acknowledge that we’re at this point. Now we’re suddenly seeing defeatist lamenting about how the DOJ supposedly can’t indict Trump, because we’re too close to election day. That’s almost laugh out loud absurd, given that the upcoming election is the 2022 midterm election, and that Trump isn’t a 2022 candidate.

We wouldn’t expect the DOJ to arrest Trump, say, a week before midterm election day, because it would be a little too on the nose. The Garland DOJ won’t want to look political if it can help it. But if the DOJ has concluded that it wants to indict Trump next week or three weeks from now, then that’s when it’ll happen. The upcoming midterms, which aren’t until November and don’t involve Trump anyway, will not be a factor.

Of course, just before the DOJ had the FBI carry out the search and seizure warrant at Trump’s home, we had to put up with the media and pundit class telling us that a DOJ memo about political candidates running in the 2022 election had somehow closed the door on any legal action against Trump before year’s end. That narrative was absurd on its face, and was promptly proven wrong by the Trump search warrant. Now we have to hear about how that memo will somehow make it impossible for the DOJ to arrest Trump until after November, even though – again – the memo never had anything to do with Trump.

Again, we have no way of knowing when the DOJ will decide to pop Donald Trump. If it decides to strategically hold off on bringing the espionage and obstruction charges until after it also has election-related and 1/6-related charges ready against him, then it could be quite awhile longer. But if the DOJ has decided to bring the espionage and obstruction charges against Trump once they’re ready, this new filing makes it pretty clear that those charges are indeed ready. We’re now at a point where we could wake up any day and learn that Trump was just taken into custody.