You’re right—he should have been nailed to the wall decades ago, but he would have done the exact same thing—-rained holy hell down and thrown sand in the gears, and tied the county or state up in knots. The prosecutors had to make a decision—throw a ton of resources at one white collar criminal or use those same resources to prosecute s…
You’re right—he should have been nailed to the wall decades ago, but he would have done the exact same thing—-rained holy hell down and thrown sand in the gears, and tied the county or state up in knots. The prosecutors had to make a decision—throw a ton of resources at one white collar criminal or use those same resources to prosecute some number of other criminals who aren’t Roy Cohn disciples.
Trump has proven that if you are a big enough asshole you can get away with a lot because nobody wants to be the target of an asshole.
A little addition. Had Trump not been super-empowered with money from birth, he'd be a garden variety sociopath, hawking annuities to retirees in Boca Raton. The law, however, is principally a system to manage the care and feeding of the powerful for those with wealth.
You’re right—he should have been nailed to the wall decades ago, but he would have done the exact same thing—-rained holy hell down and thrown sand in the gears, and tied the county or state up in knots. The prosecutors had to make a decision—throw a ton of resources at one white collar criminal or use those same resources to prosecute some number of other criminals who aren’t Roy Cohn disciples.
Trump has proven that if you are a big enough asshole you can get away with a lot because nobody wants to be the target of an asshole.
A little addition. Had Trump not been super-empowered with money from birth, he'd be a garden variety sociopath, hawking annuities to retirees in Boca Raton. The law, however, is principally a system to manage the care and feeding of the powerful for those with wealth.