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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

This is actually two questions.

First, was the prosecution a kangaroo/banana republic political decision? Yes. Unequivocally. Even Andrew Cuomo has called it an embarrassment. It was nakedly political and there is no dispute on that. Don’t even attempt to justify it. You’ll only embarrass yourself. Bragg’s predecessor wouldn’t bring the case. And Bragg campaigned on “getting Trump.”

Second, we come to the trial. Was that a kangaroo proceeding? I don’t think so. The judge and jury did what they were supposed to do. Was it an improper forum? Probably. But Trump has preserved the argument that he could not receive a fair trial for appeal. So again, technically not unfair.

Apologists for the nakedly political motive behind the prosecution will try to conflate these two things. As if “The trial was fairly administered!” is a retort to the argument the decision to prosecute was obviously political.

Your conceit that "the"* motive bending the decision to bring the case was political is pretty decisively refuted by the fact that Trump had no good defense, factual or legal, and was convicted. It's clear that he did what he did, and that it was a crime. Calling it "political" is meant to persuade people who weren't paying attention that Trump didn't actually do the crimes, and that the convictions weren't fair, to change the subject from what he did and feed the grievances of him and his followers. But he did do the crimes, and he was fairly convicted for them.


* There can be only one?