Trump’s indictment cannot be avoided. Damned either way.
As a top prosecutor and defense attorney in the civilian and military legal systems, I am biased toward our uniquely American criminal justice system.
America must defend the premise that the law applies equally to all and that our penal system achieves the most justice. Results never justify tactics. Us versus. Trump undermines them.
Bad optics. Saying the undisputed facts puckers your face.
Democrat President Joe Biden, Trump’s competitor for the world’s most powerful job, seems to have unlawfully kept confidential papers close to the 10W30 oil in his garage for years.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Biden’s political appointee, picked Trump’s prosecutor. Trump may be prosecuted by Biden.
Email opinion Monday–Friday.
Biden’s then-boss, Barack Obama, blocked Garland’s SCOTUS nomination to allow Trump to choose someone else. Trump and Republicans restricted Garland to four years.
In the trial, former President Trump admits to taking Top Secret White House papers and hiding them in his bathroom next to the soap-on-a-rope.
He is accused of concealing them from the U.S. government of which he was no longer a part and evading a grand jury subpoena by lying to his attorney about his possession of the papers.
Trump admits on recording that he failed to declassify documents he gave to unauthorized persons while president. Trump denies wrongdoing.
The 49-page indictment may convict Trump.
However, those who recall the elaborate, multi-year, FBI-involved Russian collusion hoax, the politically motivated Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prosecution, and other Democrats-who-cried-wolf incidents over the past seven years remain skeptical of what appears to be another chapter in the Never-Ending Get Trump Story.
Can Republicans hold Republicans accountable? I want two-time Iraq veteran and former Congressman Adam Kinzinger.
“What about Hillary?” they ask, referring to the former secretary of state and failed Trump opponent who stored private emails on a home server in a Denver lavatory near Head & Shoulders shampoo.
Despite destroying cell phones and laptops, the FBI exonerated her. Trump’s FBI and DOJ didn’t investigate.
Trump is hypocritical.
Modern America complicates our choices. Despite Trump supporters’ factual gymnastics to prove the audio-recorded admission is phony or AI-generated, whether Trump committed the charges is not the most important issue.
Trump’s prosecution and the Rule of Law’s fate are the major concerns. How will law and order ever break from the party of no personal responsibility?
If this is “selective prosecution” because Clinton, Biden, Pence, and everyone else has not been probed and charged, tell America what happens to Trump. Will future ex-POTUSes just be shielded from crimes involving sensitive documents?
Last month, 29-year Air Force veteran Robert Birchum was sentenced to three years in prison for illegally storing sensitive materials at home. Bob—you should have run for president.”
The criminal justice system has opposed two systems—one for the rich and one for us. This case may prove that the law favors the politically privileged.
We should have long since imposed a zero-tolerance policy for former presidents and presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat, who had critical documents without authority. Uniformed service. Our chiefs should have followed. Can we never hold them accountable for not achieving that?
Selective prosecution. The law. Apolitical justice. Trump, Biden, Democrats, Republicans—curse your houses for putting us here.
Mistakes shouldn’t immobilize us. Trump is politician. It’s legal. What kind of America will we leave our kids?