Before we argue all the wonderfully lurid details of Trump’s latest ethical fiasco, it’s worth asking whether Trump is guilty.  The answer is easy: of course he is.  I mean, come on!  The simple appearance of corruption disappeared out of his rear-view mirror long before he was elected.  Trump isn’t even mildly guilty, he’s fantastically, hysterically, pathologically guilty.  He’s “A new field of abnormal psychology” guilty.  He pees himself in fear when he sees pictures of Robert Mueller.

Yes, Trump is guilty. It’s obvious in his lies, his bluster, his threats, his endless bullshit, and his indifference to ever telling the truth about anything.  He openly blocks investigations that might get close to him. He doesn’t even pretend he’s not lying every time he speaks.  His guilt is compounded by his grade-school masculinity that has him doubling down on the stupidest nonsense.  This doesn’t take a mind-reader.  Trump is so tightly inflated with guilt he threatens to explode if he tries to keep the lies inside himself.  You can see the pressure build, right? He’s not a man who denies himself much.  Within a day or two, you know Trump will be spewing contradictory excuses and justifications that will include the truth he denied on his mother’s grave just a day or two before.  Delayed gratification isn’t his gig.

Now, you ask, what is Trump guilty of?  Oh.  Well, that’s harder to list.

He’s guilty of lying, of course, about all of reality.  Trump isn’t that rich and he’s an indifferent lover.  Trump lies about his feelings because he’s a sociopath who can only mimic normal human emotions.  No, he isn’t smart, he doesn’t have a great memory, and he doesn’t have unusually great genes.  The man isn’t 239 pounds, and he isn’t in phenomenal health.  President Orangina lies about his hair that we all see every time we look at him.

Trump is guilty about his skills, certainly.  He isn’t a great negotiator, businessman, leader, or innovator.  Trump didn’t improve our nuclear weapons arsenal, and he didn’t cut the costs of military planes planned before his presidency.  Our President isn’t tough on Russia or North Korea or China.

Trump isn’t great or popular.  He doesn’t have a 50% approval rating.

Trump didn’t improve our economy, which wasn’t failing, but Trump may understand that Obama’s recovery is topping out. And so he lies about that, too.  Our chief executive won the job by promising to protect Medicare and Medicaid; he hasn’t and has no intention of starting.  Trump (and his Republicans) will make health care much worse, and not even slightly better in any place.  Mexico will never pay for his wall.

Is Trump guilty of pointless lying?  (Really, you have to ask?) Democrats didn’t bus millions of illegal voters to out-of-state polls. Trump’s inauguration crowd was much smaller than Obama’s, as was his approval, his popular vote, and his general competence.  Trump didn’t turn down Time’s Man of the Year, Trump didn’t cause the stock market to rise, he didn’t make airplanes safer, and he hasn’t signed more bills than any president.  And no matter how many times Trump repeats his favorite lies, people insist they are still lies.  Who here is surprised that Trump even cheats at golf?  Trump lies about the weather.  It’s hard to beat that.

Trump, son of a notorious KKK leader, is a racist himself, as well as a braggart, and a coward.  No, there aren’t good people on both sides.  He isn’t a very stable genius and the best president since Lincoln.  Who, he’s sure we’ll be surprised to know, was a Republican.

Trump not only met Stormy Daniels, he invited her back, he had very ordinary sex with her.  No, she wasn’t thrilled with him, she only let him continue out of a sense of obligation, and he tried to pay her afterword, just like Trump did with Karen McDougal and many others.  Trump already knows they’re telling the truth and he probably understands that most people believe the women over him.  Is he guilty of those lies?

Is Trump guilty of soliciting hundreds of millions in undisclosed loans from Deutsche Bank/­Russian Oligarchs/­the Chinese Government?  Maybe Trump’s guilty of laundered millions for Russian Oligarchs/­Mafia/­Chinese/­Ukrainian dictators through his real estate holdings?  How about soliciting foreign governments to give Trump businesses preferential treatment?

Maybe Trump’s guilty because of his connections to the Bank of Cyprus, notorious for laundering Russian oligarch money?  His campaign manager Paul Manafort laundered millions through dozens of fake Cyprus accounts, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was a Vice President of the Bank of Cyprus, the Paradice Papers implicated Jared Kushner in Cyprus scams, and there are hints that Trump may have benefitted personally.  Is he guilty of money laundering?

Is Trump guilty of obstruction and conspiracy? He’s already admitted obstructing justice when he fired James Comey?  Sure, Trump lied about that, but he blurted out the truth several times within the next few days.  Then Trump lied about lying about the lie, despite accidentally telling the truth on a national broadcast.  Is he guilty of soliciting Russian hacking?  (Well, that one’s already out of the bag.)  Trump intimidated the Ukraine government from investigating their corruption for fear that Trump might retaliate against Ukraine – a sovereign nation – because they might have found out embarrassing facts about Trump and his cronies.  Trump only smiled and kept his mouth shut.

So, is Trump guilty election corruption?  He celebrated Russia’s corruption during our last election, courted more, and he’s facilitating the continued corruption of the next, against the advice of his entire administration, Congress, and most of the public.  Trump is guilty of soliciting/­accepting/­coordinating/­using intelligence on his opponents from Putin/Israelis/Ukrainians to discredit his political opponents, the federal investigators, the Iran negotiators, and the entire legal system. (Mix and match as you please.)

Is Trump guilty of tearing out the core democratic institutions that bind us together as a nation?  Trump attacks the legitimacy of elections, election machinery, election monitoring, the Electoral College that allowed Trump to win, losing in general, and the idea of peaceful transitions of power.  Trump doesn’t just attack Congress, the filibuster, Trump attacks the patriotism of opposition politicians, individually and in groups.  Don’t even ask Trump about the idea of an honorable opposition party.  Trump attacks the courts in every case where he doesn’t get the result he tries to declare.  He attacks the police, law enforcement, and any member of the military he finds politically inconvenient.  Our future President attacked Gold Star parents (whose son died serving in the US military) before Trump was elected.  Trump attacks the idea of taxes, the tax agency he’s responsible for running, the Justice Department he’s responsible for running, the State Department he disdains, the EPA, the Department of Education, and more.  There are at least 62 agencies Trump suggested he wants to close.

And yes, Trump attacks Americans.  He attacks Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Claire McCaskill, and Elizabeth Warren.  (All either women or dark.  Huh.)  Trump hates African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, women who aren’t pretty enough, Democrats, and Republicans he considers disloyal.  Is Trump guilty of criminal negligence toward Puerto Rico?  Trump hates poor people, old people (if they don’t have money), disabled people, unemployed people, and children, especially sick kids.  Is Trump guilty of having no heart?

Trump hates immigrants and refugees in general, but particularly Haitians, Central-Americans of all kinds, Africans, and almost everyone from the middle east except Saudi Arabia.  He hates anyone who has ancestors from outside the country (unless they’re as pretty as Melania), and Trump canceled DACA almost immediately.  Trump hates’ Muslims, extreme or otherwise.  Probably Hinduism, too.  Is Trump guilty for being a mean-spirited, racist bastard?

Trump hates Washington, Wall Street, the White House, inner cities, ‘the system,’ and most voters outside his base.  The American President attacks the media, opinion polling that doesn’t fawn over him, China in the abstract, Japan when it comes to trade, and, somehow, bowling balls.  Trump hated Kim Jung Un before he loved him.  The head of our government seems to hate every trade treaty that America ever joined, along with trade in general, although loves tariffs that benefit his friends.  Trump routinely brags about how he lied to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  It’s not like Trump hasn’t manipulated the federal government for his friends.

So as I said, of course Trump is guilty.  But what is he guilty of specifically?  I can think of a minimum list of 16 or so, but it’s hard to narrow it down much past that.