Joe Biden and Merrick Garland are going after the rich tax cheats so no surprise they're trying to take him down
A 30-count indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court charging Douglas Edelman, a former defense contractor, and his wife, with a decades-long scheme to defraud the United States and evade taxes on more than $350 million in income Edelman made as a defense contractor during the United States’ post-9/11 military efforts in Afghanistan and the Middle East. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-defense-contractor-and-his-wife-indicted-evading-us-taxes-profits-selling-jet
Trump is not & has never been a victim of justice. He's a crook.
And "Republicans" knew it all the time.
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What’s unusual about Trump is not that a politician got into legal trouble, or even that a professional scammer went into politics, but that a political party allowed a crook to rise to its top. That, in turn, reveals the deeply unhealthy state of the GOP, not any extralegal steps being taken by his opponents.
Before he won the Republican nomination the first time, Republicans were perfectly aware that his decades of bilking customers and counterparties, lying to everybody, and surrounding himself with known criminals posed a series legal risk. Now that that risk has gone from theoretical to actual, and it is being shared by the Republican Party, they seem to believe it’s not fair to hold him legally accountable.
But no plot was necessary here. The law finally catching up to a lifelong crook is utterly predictable.
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