April 28, 2023
How Conservatives Got the Trump Indictment Backwards
By Stephen Baskerville
Donald Trump's indictment demonstrates starkly what many Americans have long known through personal experience: the American judiciary is available as a weapon to punish innocent people. Like video footage recently released of January 6, showing judicial officials and members of Congress framing innocent Americans, the Trump indictment shatters any illusions that the American judiciary still dispenses justice.
But we might suspend our indignation long enough to understand that this was allowed to happen because of similar injustices we have long permitted against ordinary Americans.
Even now, the political class of the right as well as the left say nothing about this and endeavor to cover it up. They throw up their hands at the Trump indictment and voice their astonishment "that such a thing can happen in America." And yet their own words reveal that it happens because they themselves protect it.
Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative "civil rights lawyer," says that "if they can do this to a former president, they can concoct false charges, without even articulating what the charges are, against any American for political reasons." No, Ms. Dhillon gets it backward. This is happening to Trump because it has already happened to many other Americans. She is covering up more than she is revealing: "It should really be terrifying to all Americans that this is the current state of the law in New York City." No again, not current law in New York. Similar and worse injustices reveal the state of the law for decades throughout the United States.
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