Since before Donald Trump was elected president, I have been critical of him. One of my criticisms has been that he didn’t understand the federal government and didn’t care that he didn’t. Of course that came back to bite him.
BTW don’t take that observation as a testament to my satisfaction with the federal government. IMO we’re in drastic need of a top-to-bottom housecleaning. I simply didn’t think that Donald Trump was capable of doing it and I think that has proven correct.
Now that he is under federal indictment I’ve been reading an enormous number of op-eds and editorials about it, many declaiming about the “rule of law” without understanding what that means. I’ve read both that the case against Mr. Trump is extraordinarily strong and the case against Mr. Trump is extraordinarily weak. I don’t think we’ll know until the text of the actual indictment is revealed.
If I were Mr. Trump’s lawyers I would be making a series of claims, for example that the statutes under which he has been indicted are unconstitutional, don’t apply to him, are vague, or that the Department of Justice doesn’t have jurisdiction.
The key point is that the law is what you can prove in court, what the court says it is, and what the jury will convict on rather than what you might want it to be.
