I get that this is a really lame line of defense but does nobody else find it totally implausible that Trump actually wrote to-do lists down for a staffer? Or wrote down anything at all, ever?
Or maybe I’m just jaded about tweets that start out “this is big.” The last 7 years have shown that it’s never big, or that at least that the bar for big is really freaking high now.
You may be joking, but I can assure you that there are still tons and tons of establishment Dem types that desperately want to believe that the US was actually Just Fine under Obama, and if you take Trump out of the question then the US can go back to being the perfect society it was pre-Trump where you pretended that you were on an episode of the West Wing. This belief system extends to something like 90% of lawyers and probably 70% of all other technocratic professionals. They are never going to admit that the system they built is flawed.
I think anyone that has ever worked in risk management, especially compliance, knows that no one follows the rules if the “boss” says they don’t have to. This is compliance 101 stuff, even in a more boring organization like a corporation, if the division head or CEO says no one has to follow compliance rules then no one does.
I think home confinement to some sort of apartment with a window where he can see his golf course but isn’t allowed to step foot on it would be the best punishment.