I've read over the federal indictment against Mr. Trump, and I fear the case isn't quite as strong as some commentators claim it is. I can see how a non-biased juror (if such an animal exists) can find reasonable doubt not to convict Mr. Trump. I also believe that the indictment makes certain arguments for public consumption that in my view are overwrought and borderline irrelevant to the case at hand.
So....this blog post, like Gaul, will be divided into three parts. In part 1, I'll state that I'm not a lawyer and don't have much legal training. I'll also make the usual claim that I really really truly truly believe that Mr. Trump is a bad person and really really truly truly probably committed the crime and really really truly truly deserves to go to jail. In part 2, I'll raise what I see as the political and legal weaknesses of the indictment. In part 3, I'll repeat my disclosures from part 1, and that won't matter because if anyone actual reads this (long) blog post, they'll accuse me of being a Trump apologist anyway. So it goes.
