12 August—It was in January 2018 that President Donald Trump signed an updated national security bill that, among other things, made mishandling secret government information a more serious crime.

18 U.S. Code §1924 originally read:

“Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.”

The update we’re concerned with here simply increased the maximum sentence to five years, thus making what had been a misdemeanor into a felony. The Republicans, who held majorities in both houses at the time, doubtless felonized the misdemeanors (which should have been felonies from the start) because Sandy Berger, Willy Clinton’s security advisor, had got off with a misdemeanor—$50,000 fine and no time served—after abstracting classified material from the National Archives when he wasn’t even working for Clinton; and, of course, Hillary and her pals had got away with all manner of security breaches when she was Obama’s Secretary of State. And who knows what else?

So when Trump took classified material from the White House to Palm Beach, it was only fitting that his new improved felony should have come back to bite his fat ass. But not so fast. What if the scumbag-in-chief had declassified everything, assuming he could prove it? He still flouted the Presidential Records Act. But would it even matter? At least he didn’t steal furniture and collectibles like the Clintons had done. Or did he?

Right now, sad to say, it doesn’t look like der Drecksack Führer has too much to worry about. Besides the old faithful Fifth Amendment, which he’s abused at least since his divorce from the late Ivana, he has plausible (though I prefer to think implausible) deniability in virtually every crime he’s committed. He is a brilliant con man, after all. And his fiduciaries have been able to buy off (or rub out?) anyone who comes too close.

I see the only real hope to get Trump as resting in Georgia, where he was dumb enough to ask election officials on a recorded phone line to fiddle with votes. Then again, he was and is crazy.

As for Attorney General Merrick Garland, while he’s on Trump’s case, is he doing anything at all about the well-intentioned people who nevertheless broke the law by threatening Supreme Court justices?