Democratic Prosecutors and Trump: A Toxic Pair

Member Group : Keith Naughton

It’s a strange thing about politics. Even when a rational, maximizing strategy is blindingly obvious, supposedly smart people do incomprehensible things. In the case of everyone vs. Donald Trump, the prosecutors are making serious mistakes that could boomerang on them and bolster Trump.

Like it or not, prosecuting a former President running for President brings politics into the equation. That’s just reality. Nobody is really treated equally before the law. In most cases unequal treatment is a pedestrian matter of who can afford a good attorney. In the case of the famous (or the infamous), unequal treatment vacillates between prosecutors wanting to make an example of someone (Martha Stewart springs to mind) or prosecutors intimidated by the defendant (Hunter Biden, anyone?).

Read the rest of the story in The Hill.