J.D. Capelouto, Diego Mendoza, and David Weigel, writing for Semafor, have one of the thousands of stories about Donald Trump getting indicted. Again.

Federal prosecutors charged former U.S. President Donald Trump for allegedly holding on to classified documents after he left office, the former president announced on Truth Social.

It’s the second time Trump — who is in the midst of a campaign to return to the White House — has been criminally charged, following an indictment in New York over his alleged role in giving “hush money” to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

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The exact charges have not yet been revealed, but multiple news outlets say there are 7 counts related to Trump’s alleged mishandling classified documents he kept after leaving the White House. The New York Times reports that two of the counts include conspiracy to obstruct and willful retention of documents.

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Trump’s charges in New York marked the first time in U.S. history that a former president was criminally indicted. He could still face additional charges in other probes. Smith is also investigating his efforts to subvert the 2020 election, and prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia are looking into Trump’s attempts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the state.

Additionally, Robert Reich weighs in on Republicans trying to defend Trump with the whataboutisms.

Trump and his defenders — and there will be many (such as nearly every lawmaker in the Republican Party) — will argue that Joe Biden and Mike Pence did the same as Trump did, and yet only Trump is being subject to a Justice Department indictment.

Rubbish. Biden and Pence sought to cooperate with authorities; Trump tried to thwart them.

Biden and Pence came forward to volunteer that they had found classified documents among their private possessions. Trump appears to have done everything possible to hold on to the classified documents — denying he had them, hiding them from public officials charged with retrieving them, and then, after a subpoena was served on him to produce them, secretly moving them from a Mar-a-Lago storage area.

That’s two indictments so far this year. Georgia is yet to weigh in. At some point, people are going to have to understand he’s a criminal right?