There is an article on Huffpost today that remarks apropos of Trump’s coming arraignment:

“Since no former president had ever been charged with a crime, there’s no rulebook for booking the defendant.”

This invites the question “Why would we expect there to be a special rulebook for booking a defendant who happens to have been President?” For all the phony glitter surrounding him, Trump remains a common criminal, and despite all the MAGA histrionics about his indictment, treating Trump any differently from a common criminal would be an attack on the foundations of the United States.