Trump Has “Eviscerated” His Own Defense, But Does Anyone Care? 

All this may be true.  But does it matter?  Does the U.S. Justice Department have the integrity and courage to indict an extremely popular person, for the precise crime that you or I would be spending decades in prison if we had committed it?

One has to hope so, especially since a run-of-the-mill FBI agent is spending 12 months behind bars for taking a  (single) classified document home.  When she was caught, she confessed and returned the document immediately.  She didn’t hide it, claim she had the right to have it, deny the charge, nor did she claim that she was the victim of a witch-hunt.  She quietly plead guilty and subsequently reported for a year in prison, knowing that she would be regarded for the rest of her life as an ex-con who had betrayed the trust that had been bestowed on her by her country.

In former days, criminals like Trump would have been hanged, or, more recently, fried in the electric chair or executed by lethal injection.