Meanwhile this Marxist lunatic won't prosecute actual criminals. I'm no fan of Trump and really really wish he wasn't the alternative to Biden. What he did after November 20 was inexcusable. But I'm with you. This prosecution is gross. And millions of people not following it closely or not understanding it simply want Trump to go to jail because...he's Trump. They still think he colluded with Russia. Things are really terrible.
I'm absolutely outraged by this case and what's going on in the courtroom. There's no crime. The gag order is unconstitutional, and is applied to nobody else except those "controlled" by Trump. The judge is in the prosecution's hip pocket. He's accepting testimony that's both prejudicial and irrelevant. When this is over he should be referred to a judicial ethics board. I agree with Bill that this and other litigation against Trump will likely prompt him to retaliate if he wins, and he can probably make a plausible case for doing so. It's this tit for tat recourse to criminal law against political opponents that prompted the Supreme Court conservatives to suggest limited immunity for ex presidents is necessary. If anything should make fence sitters jump off on Trump's side, this is it. Jim Dueholm
For my entire life, and all my professional life as well as an AUSA, I took it for granted that politics was politics and law was law. That's now over with, courtesy of these prosecutions. It's tragic and dangerous, and an ineffably huge loss for our country As Adlai Stevenson once said, it hurts too much to laugh but I'm too old to cry -- even though I feel like it.
Meanwhile this Marxist lunatic won't prosecute actual criminals. I'm no fan of Trump and really really wish he wasn't the alternative to Biden. What he did after November 20 was inexcusable. But I'm with you. This prosecution is gross. And millions of people not following it closely or not understanding it simply want Trump to go to jail because...he's Trump. They still think he colluded with Russia. Things are really terrible.
I'm absolutely outraged by this case and what's going on in the courtroom. There's no crime. The gag order is unconstitutional, and is applied to nobody else except those "controlled" by Trump. The judge is in the prosecution's hip pocket. He's accepting testimony that's both prejudicial and irrelevant. When this is over he should be referred to a judicial ethics board. I agree with Bill that this and other litigation against Trump will likely prompt him to retaliate if he wins, and he can probably make a plausible case for doing so. It's this tit for tat recourse to criminal law against political opponents that prompted the Supreme Court conservatives to suggest limited immunity for ex presidents is necessary. If anything should make fence sitters jump off on Trump's side, this is it. Jim Dueholm
For my entire life, and all my professional life as well as an AUSA, I took it for granted that politics was politics and law was law. That's now over with, courtesy of these prosecutions. It's tragic and dangerous, and an ineffably huge loss for our country As Adlai Stevenson once said, it hurts too much to laugh but I'm too old to cry -- even though I feel like it.