My wife and I made mezcal negronis and sat on the couch and read through this first of what promises to be several investigative pieces into Trump’s financial malfeasance. It’s as thorough an accounting as we’ve had yet and, still, nothing changes. The facts are more specific, the level of corruption more open, but none of this is news. We’ve known he’s a fraud for decades now.

I was reminded of this 2005 piece, also in The Times (from an about-to-be-published book) refuting the claims of the then-game-show-host. And there’s this meme that’s made the rounds plenty of times of Barbara Walters, thirty years ago, calling him on his bullshit. There is, of course, a goddamn tweet and Hillary Clinton spelled out with laser precision why Trump refusing to release his taxes was so dangerous.

There’s a glimmer of hope at the end of the Times investigation: if Trump loses the election, there’s a very strong criminal case to be made against him. He’ll not doubt spend as long as he can holed up in some self-reinforcing media bubble of his own making, whining and lashing out and bilking his base. But there’s a real chance he becomes the first former president to go to jail.

Before he was president, I remember remarking (maybe tweeting?) the best way to stop a future Donald Trump is simple: listen to victims of sexual assault and prosecute white collar crime. No new laws, no reconfiguration of any branches of government required. Just as true today.