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Randall Briggs's avatar

I'm a long-time fan of Jonah Goldberg's writing. But I think that he's wrong here. It is simply not the case that New York has never prosecuted anyone for such actions as Trump committed in hiding campaign expenditures. Just like the feds getting Al Capone on income tax evasion rather than for murder, Alvin Bragg got Donald Trump on campaign-finance violations rather than on fomenting a coup and misusing Top Secret (SCI) documents. It leaves us not feeling satisfied. But Donald Trump got his day in court. He had his opportunity to make his case to the jury, not just to his armed and angry mob. He didn't make a case to the jury except to have his lawyers claim that the prosecution was nothing but lies. As far as Alvin Bragg having it out for Trump, well, I imagine that the prosecutor of Al Capone had it out for Mr. Scarface. And good for him.

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RRP's avatar

I don't think the judge would be interfering in an election. Is he supposed to consider such things as the election and whether sentencing day falls on the four-leaf-clover holiday? If the overall judicial system actually worked, Trump would have been convicted on a few other charges many months ago. Actually, judging from several biographies of Trump, he should have been convicted on other charges such as laundering Russian mafia money through his condos decades ago. The dysfunction in the court system may be as bad as that in Congress.

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