Trump’s Guilty Verdict Rocks Political World.
“ Donald Trump’s first act on becoming a convicted criminal was to launch a raging new attack on the rule of law, laying bare the gravity of the choice awaiting America’s voters.
In one sense, Trump’s conviction on all counts in his first criminal trial affirmed the principle on which the United States is founded — that everyone is equal and that no one, not even a billionaire and former and possibly future president, enjoys impunity.
But Trump’s authoritarian outburst minutes after the guilty verdict in New York and a race by top Republicans to join his assault on the justice system underscore how threatened those bedrock values now are.”
Donald Trump has long cast himself on the side of law and order and has actively sought (and gained) the endorsements of the law enforcement community from coast to coast. The law has always been something he views as applying to someone else like the ‘illegals’ he thinks pile over the border and go on rampant crime sprees. His mantra has always been that the ‘others’ in society need law enforcement to rein them in to protect the lives of law abiding citizens. He cannot comprehend the laws apply to him and yet here we sit with a convicted former president as the GOP nominee to be the next President.
