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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 27, 2024

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If it was so straightforward, how were there 34 separate charges?

But that's besides the point. I honestly don't know or care if he's guilty. The bigger issue is the political motivation of the trial. No one really believes that Trump would be prosecuted if he wasn't Trump. Biden is no doubt guilty of many felonies himself. The Clintons are as well. Yet they have not been prosecuted and for good reason. It is destabilizing. And even though Trump is being hoisted on his own petard here (lock her up!), it's still wrong to use the legal system to persecute your political enemies.

Political show trials are a feature of corrupt Latin American democracies. It's not a good sign that they have come to the U.S.

Is being someone's political enemy supposed to make you immune to the legal system?

Bob Menendez clearly hasn't made enough enemies.

Honestly, I'd be great with applying the Trump standard to EVERYONE in Washington DC for a few decades.

Biden is no doubt guilty of many felonies himself. The Clintons have as well. Yet they have not been prosecuted and for good reason.

Uhh, those are some bold statements. Bill did get himself impeached for lying about his affair.

Trump has flagrantly played fast/loose with the law for years. He literally refused to cooperate when the feds said “please give the classified documents back.” His brazen approach was going to catch up with him.

Because Trump paid Cohen in 11 checks, in response to 11 invoices from Cohen, which generated 12 ledger entries in Trump's business. Each fraudulent record is a separate charge.