Also worth adding, if the country preemptively places a criminal wrongdoer above the rule of law based solely on considerations that have nothing to do with whether crimes were committed or can be proved, that country is not abiding by the rule of law either.
A “banana republic” country would either
(A) have NOT allowed justice to take place in its time
(B) allowed the commission of crimes without prosecuting them
(C) immediately have charged, tried and convicted Trump in 2017. He’d be in his 3rd year in prison now.
OR
(D) Trump would have alresdy been hung in the public square for the attempted coup we all witnessed.
None of those happened.
The rule of law still prevails. If you claim the adjective “patriotic” you must support the rule of law.
100%. Well said.
Also worth adding, if the country preemptively places a criminal wrongdoer above the rule of law based solely on considerations that have nothing to do with whether crimes were committed or can be proved, that country is not abiding by the rule of law either.