Smoke Gets In Your Eyes #238 By Hank Silverberg It is purely coincidental that smoke from the climate change affected Canadian forest fires covered much of the northeast and central states this past week--the same week where former President Donald J. Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury. Trump's criminal case will now put a hazy cloud over much of the 2024 presidential race as he tries to campaign for another term while on trial for, among other things, sections of the Espionage Act. First, let's remember, the indictment (a charging document) was issued by a Grand Jury composed of ordinary citizens who live in a state, Florida, that Trump carried by 4 points in 2020. Those jurors thought there is enough evidence to charge him with 37 criminal counts. What surprised me the most about the developments this week was not large number of charges. It was not the pictures included in the indictment