The person in question had the charges dropped by the justice dept, no?
Trump was charged with hush money/ falsifying business records among other things during the Biden term:
Details by case:
- Georgia (Fulton County, August 24, 2023) — Election interference / RICO charges.
This is the famous scowling mugshot taken at the Fulton County Jail. It is the first (and so far only) booking photo of a U.S. president or former president.
- New York (Manhattan, April 2023) — Hush-money / falsifying business records case.
He was fingerprinted, but authorities did not photograph him.
- Federal Florida case (June 2023) — Classified documents.
- Federal Washington, D.C. case (August 2023) — Election interference.
Not to mention they tried to get him on colluding with a foreign adversary. If they would have had the evidence, could it have been some for of treason?
You compared all of the above to a vandalism charge. Saying the vandalism charge was worse?
When did Trump lose the label of being a private US citizen?
So here you are COMPLETELY CHANGING YOUR ARGUMENT. Trump was never charged with anything related to Russia, HE WASN'T EVEN IMPEACHED FOR IT. He was impeached for (a) threatening to withhold Congressionally approved funding from Ukraine, demanding an investigation of Biden to issue what he was obligated to pay by law (not his money, taxpayer money) and (b) fomenting a riot at the Capitol.
Trump was charged with four cases. Here they were:
1. The NYC case on hush money: The case was so weak Trump was convicted. There are arguments to the prosecutor's upping the charges from misdemeanors to felonies was dubious, I believe that is now on appeal.
2. The documents case: We don't need to go over this again. Trump was laughably guilty of the alleged crime, even faked a flood at Mar-A-Loser to try and cover it up.
3. The Georgia election case: Feel free to defend Trump's demand to "find rough 12K votes" to the Georgia SOS. The Georgia prosecutor was a clown and tanked her own case.
4. The DC case on the Capitol Riot: There are ample criticisms of whether this is a case that should have been brought. The theories were novel, though the conduct alleged was all true.
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What I think you want to argue is that the ex-President was targeted. Sure, he was. The validity of that probably rests with one's politics. But the conduct alleged wasn't made up (as it was in the reflecting pool case).
If you assume the best of intentions by Donald Trump, he's basically a victim of his own stupidity.