It would be a perversion of justice of the highest order if we prosecuted hundreds of people for participating in violent insurrection, but let the mastermind & ring leader skate to a life of luxury & golf every day.
No ONE in America has been better at evading justice & no
one in America has been more deserving of punishment than Trump.
Nuremberg was not about holding low level foot soldiers accountable. They paid a price, for sure, but it was the leaders who were publicly shamed
and made to face the world for their crimes.
Imagine if Hitler had survived the allied liberation. Do you think ANYONE IN THE WORLD would have intimated he be let him go & allowed to retire in peace to promote global «healing» & «unity?»
Trump has the blood of 400,000 dead
Americans on his hands. He broke more laws while in office than we can shake a stick at!
Even the people who are suggesting that he be given a pass aren’t doing so because he isn’t deserving of punishment. They are doing so because they have a stake in preserving the world
order in which wealthy, powerful white men get away with WHATEVER THE HELL they do.
The desperate, almost pathological need to preserve the mystique of powerful white men blocks out rational thinking about accountability & justice. The EXACT SAME mindset that justified giving