.speechboy71: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the indictment a “weaponization of federal law enforcement.' In fact, the opposite is true.
Indeed, for all the pious proclamations of Republican leaders about the sanctity of the rule of law, Trump’s defenders have things exactly backward. Nothing would do more to weaken the rule of law in America — or the notion of equality under the law — than Trump escaping criminal accountability for his actions.
How is that upholding the rule of law? By even suggesting that a Trump indictment undermines the rule of law — without any of them having actually seen the evidence amassed against Trump — Republicans are themselves undermining it. What they want and what they are calling for is a two-tiered system of justice in which one of the most powerful political figures in America would be untouchable by the criminal justice system.
That is not an America that any of us should ever want to live in. “Our nation’s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world,” Smith said Friday. True patriots, true defenders of the rule of law, and even the nation’s founders understand
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