The Wall Street Journal, as you might expect, chimed in with this one: “Trump Is Being Prosecuted, but Justice Department Is on Trial, Too.”
In all the media reports I have cited, the journalists seem to have made Trump the final arbiter of his own intent.
If criminal conviction depended on a defendant’s own representation of his state of mind, there could be no law enforcement.
But the unspoken premise of legal experts typically quoted in the media is that a default assumption of benign intent only applies to certain claimants like Trump.
While the attitudes towards taking human life were identical, the law granted legal exemption to one and not the other.
No one, however, consulted the children to determine whether their rights to become educated, functioning citizens might have been infringed.
This is nowhere more evident than in the fanatical devotion to Donald Trump expressed by nearly 80 percent of evangelical Christians. »
