Tuesday's news is zero guarantee he'll be charged, tried, convicted, or imprisoned. To my mind, with the information currently available to the public, telling the American people to expect Trump's prosecution is telling them to engage in fantasy.
And it's not a harmless fantasy. It would once again lavish Trump with attention — and perhaps needless attention, should this investigation end in nothing (or nothing the average American can explain as proof of Trump's corruption in a minute or less, which in politics is functionally the same thing). That's a real possibility, though Trump is now deprived of the presidential resources he once enjoyed. If this investigation is handled as Russiagate was and ends in a similar whimper, with no criminal consequences for Trump personally, he will run victory laps until the day he dies. He will do this even if, in echoes of the Russia scandal, some of his subordinates are prosecuted and/or there is evidence of wrongdoing (perhaps more moral than legal) but not enough for prosecution.
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