SCOTT JENNINGS: As for the reaction to all of this, the weeping and gnashing of teeth from the no one is above the law crowd could be heard around the world last night. If you’ve looked at any news sources today, you’ve heard the word unprecedented thrown around endlessly, which tells me that apparently nobody knows what the definition of that word actually is. But please spare me the outrage over political prosecutions.
For all of you who ever said, no one is above the law, or said that institutions of justice are sacred and cannot be questioned, or described Donald Trump as a 34 felon, you know what I say? Choke on it. Just choke on it.
Honestly, if you cheered the political prosecutions of Donald Trump on cases that were clearly novel and made up just for him, just for politics, choke on it. If you are lamenting today, whoa, this was five years ago, and yet you cheered on the criminalization of a liaison Trump had in 2006, choke on it. If you’re whining about the use of process to punish people, but you cheered the use of process to cripple Trump, the candidate, Trump, the president, and his people, choke on it.
If you’re worried about revenge, let me ask you a simple question. Revenge for what exactly? Whatever do you mean?
Please elaborate. Do tell what it looks like when the criminal justice systems are weaponized.