Politicized legal attacks are extremely dangerous. Americans of good faith should reject these legal attacks on the former president regardless of how they feel about him.
It’s a little hard to figure out what the crime is here. My understanding of fraud was you had to have knowingly made a material misstatement that was relied on by another party to their detriment. Otherwise there wouldn’t be any damages.So we have an elected official who ran on a get Trump platform who has Trump prosecuted on what sounds like a victimless crime. That by itself raises the specter of systemic prejudice against a defendant which I should think would be a basis for appeal by itself.As for the damages, they are so disproportionate to the offense, they are ludicrous.To analogize , it’s like giving the death penalty to someone for jaywalking.And this is being done in the context of a presidential election.You don’t have to like Trump to be very disturbed by this . This is “ political justice “ in the most obvious form. Apparently the game plan - and I think there is one even if it’s rough and unspoken- is to defenestrate Trump, get Biden reelected and the let him resign so KH can become president. Technically not a coup but real close.It such a shame we got stuck with Trump and Biden but we are.
Good points raised, Jon. The expected (and tiresome) refrain will be that you're "defending Trump" and you will be dismissed summarily. The ire around the mere mention of his name is enough to prevent successful dialogue. Nevertheless, it's absolutely essential to bring issues such as this to light, even if you're at risk of being tarred and feathered as a "Trumper".
Good. Property Rights are the basis of it all. When they are lost, all else will fall. This is really bad, and as you say, Trump is irrelevant here.
It’s a little hard to figure out what the crime is here. My understanding of fraud was you had to have knowingly made a material misstatement that was relied on by another party to their detriment. Otherwise there wouldn’t be any damages.So we have an elected official who ran on a get Trump platform who has Trump prosecuted on what sounds like a victimless crime. That by itself raises the specter of systemic prejudice against a defendant which I should think would be a basis for appeal by itself.As for the damages, they are so disproportionate to the offense, they are ludicrous.To analogize , it’s like giving the death penalty to someone for jaywalking.And this is being done in the context of a presidential election.You don’t have to like Trump to be very disturbed by this . This is “ political justice “ in the most obvious form. Apparently the game plan - and I think there is one even if it’s rough and unspoken- is to defenestrate Trump, get Biden reelected and the let him resign so KH can become president. Technically not a coup but real close.It such a shame we got stuck with Trump and Biden but we are.
Good points raised, Jon. The expected (and tiresome) refrain will be that you're "defending Trump" and you will be dismissed summarily. The ire around the mere mention of his name is enough to prevent successful dialogue. Nevertheless, it's absolutely essential to bring issues such as this to light, even if you're at risk of being tarred and feathered as a "Trumper".