Hello, as I typed I just have this page which took a little longer – it was six panels. I think I’m going to try to keep it at four panels a page, but I wanted to fit this section on one page, and make it clear: Trump wasn’t authorized to keep the documents, and MaraLago isn’t an authorized location to store the documents. But I didn’t want to draw the last sentence which could have been its own page – those actual images are floating around already. Instead I’d thought I’d connect two of the more brazenly stupid locations: the tiny stage and the stupidly opulent bathroom with two chandeliers (which I didn’t draw, because word balloons). (Also, I re-drew that last panel, where the guy was just reaching into a box thinking it was girly mags, but maybe a funnier line was that he was disappointed it was just names in foreign locations? I could have shifted the whole view down, there’s clearly space, so I could draw the chandeliers – but the thing is, the page is already filled with text, and that’s another problem in drawing six panels for this thing if I’m going to select certain legal run on sentences describing the situation and clear violations.

Between last week and now, one of the defending lawyers quit – not just this indictment case, but also representing Trump in a civil lawsuit against CNN (I think) that I can’t imagine will actually go anywhere. But, CNN is the access media, and would probably stupidly settle in hopes to have another Trump town hall.

There’s also a lot of OP-EDs in the same papers reporting on the graveness of this security nightmare, “Biden should pardon Trump” which I think is just a title that gets copies and pasted from one think-thank law professor to the next. This isn’t a regular white collar crime.

Okay, there will be a NON-indictment strip later this week, and then next week more of these. And then I’ve got something personal coming up in July and I’ll talk about that when we get to it, but I’ll likely not be posting new strips through most of that month.