Ah, but just because prosecutors selectively prosecute only the ones they want to, that doesn’t mean that the ones they do prosecute aren’t guilty.
That was actually an argument that Steinglass made in closing arguments yesterday. Just because nobody prosecuted Rahm and Eli Emanuel, etc for having The National Enquirer bury their negative stories doesn’t mean that Trump isn’t guilty for doing the same thing. Just because it’s standard operating procedure for everybody in the world and charges are never filed doesn’t mean that a fair judiciary can’t single out Donald Trump and charge him - and only him - for crimes that everybody does and throw him in jail for the next 134 years.
Same argument as for Engoron. He was told outright that what Trump did is standard operating procedure and that if NY was really going to prosecute that they would end up with all businesses leaving NY. So Gov Hochul came right out and assured everybody that their “equal justice” would really only actually ever be applied to Donald Trump.
And that’s what these people call “justice”.
SPIT
Excellent points!