Donald Trump and the “Normalization” of Crime
As of Now, the Average U.S. President Has Two Felony Indictments
Ain’t Statistics Wonderful?
Partisanship has always had a role in American politics. Without it, there wouldn’t be American politics. But the past few years have been unique. Donald J. Trump, tapping into and mobilizing an element of this country that hasn’t been seen in this strength since the prosecution and collapse of the Ku Klux Klan, was brought to the U.S. Senate for Impeachment three times, a record that exceeds the total number of impeachment trials ever conducted before he came into office, and kept his job only because of the support of a loyal (or begrudging) majority of Republicans in the Senate. Upon leaving office, the criminal and civil cases began at both the Federal and State level. Now, the most recent delivery of State felony indictments in Georgia for a complex and orchestrated attempt to overthrow the presidential election of 2020 and deny Georgians their right to vote has added new felony counts to the collection of indictments delivered to Trump — forty-one for the collection of conspirators, thirteen to him personally.
Monday’s indictments
Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton county, Georgia, used one of her favorite prosecutorial tools on…
