Unlike the national news media, I haven’t spent a lot of time covering the day-to-day happenings in the Donald Trump criminal trial in New York. There’s a few reasons for that.
First of all, everyone (regardless of politics) already understands that the trial is a farce. It’s a criminal proceeding over an alleged bookkeeping error that was supposedly made many years ago, which harmed no one. The idea that the leading presidential candidate should be imprisoned on this basis — even if these charges were somehow proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt — is laughable. In the third world, they at least invent plausible-sounding charges before they throw political dissidents and opposition leaders in jail. But in this case, we’re left with “falsifying business records in the first degree.” It sounds like something Michael Scott would accuse one of his employees of doing….
