What Did Trump Do?

What Did Trump Do? 

“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.” – Mark Twain 

Me, too. 

You’ve been following the Trump indictment drama, haven’t you? If not, you should. It’s disturbing, frightening even. Perhaps titillating. Theater of the absurd. The story owns today’s airways. 

It seems like everyone has already made up their mind: “He’s Trump. He’s evil. Guilty!”

"Where's the proof? This is just wrong. Innocent!” 

What might Trump have done so wrong that it rose to the level of a crime? I can’t yet answer that question. Something about bootstrapping a misdemeanor up to a felony in order to avoid the statute of limitations on the underlying misdemeanor. Seems like a stretch but I’m no lawyer. 

I’m open to seeing any evidence of a punishable crime. If he committed one/some, especially under the color of his office, and if the statute is still open, then sure, try him if you must. Let the punishment fit the crime. If not, allow him the freedom to campaign for office. It’s a right we all have. 

Another of our rights is the right to a free, fair, speedy and open prosecution for crimes that we are alleged to have committed. We have no Star Chambers. Let it all out, let the world see it, then let the jurors decide. 

“He will have his opportunity to prove his innocence in court.” -- Nancy Pelosi 

No, Nancy. That’s not the way American justice works. The burden is the prosecution’s, to prove that a defendant committed a crime. The defendant can say nothing and he is presumed to be innocent of all charges. 

Go ahead, prosecutor, prove up to the satisfaction of your jury. If you can’t, the defendant goes free. Perhaps tarnished by the prosecution, but free. 

No one in America has to prove his innocence, despite Nancy’s subversion of our Constitutional rights. 

Trump’s big mistake was not to pardon himself before he left office. Presumably, neither he nor his dozens of lawyers ever imagined that something like this could happen in America. It never had before. It will be a standard closing act from now on.

You may be sure that Biden won’t repeat that mistake for himself, Hunter or the rest of the Biden family. I predict that those pardons happen on his last day in office. They usually do. Wait, watch and get back to me.