OPINION:
The major problem with the Trump indictment is not that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted a former president, a man who also happens to be the current president’s leading opposition in the 2024 election. Nor is it that Bragg either leaked grand jury information or permitted grand jury information to be leaked, both of which are felonies.
It is also not the fact that a grand jury has handed up an indictment of a former president without including the required crime(s) the defendant is charged with committing or the required supporting facts about those crimes. No; the major problem is that an indictment of a former and very possibly future president — lacking even a whiff of criminal activity by the defendant — has been so openly embraced by such a large swath of our population and so overwhelmingly by the mainstream media.
Not one voice from within our official legal community has been heard in strong opposition to this circus. Certainly, the appointed judge is aware of the incredible flaws and prosecutorial abuse evidenced by this indictment and must know that should he not move swiftly to dismiss it with prejudice, his decision will be reversed in an appeals court, either state or federal.
This is a grotesque abuse of our legal system for the express purpose of damaging the leader of the political opposition, moving forward amidst the cheering support of the mainstream media, the Democrats, some Republicans, lawyers, judges and politicians. That is where our greatest danger lies, and it may very well be the undoing of us all.
BOB SEGAL
Burke, Virginia
