1/ I wrote this piece in December to explain the procedural guarantees are in place to make criminal trials as fair as possible, that they’d be absent from the Senate impeachment & why that meant Trump wouldn’t be exonerated by the Senate “trial.” time.com/5754646/impeac…
2/ If you find yourself debating this point - whether Trump has been exonerated - I hope it will give you some arguments to use: “If a defendant is acquitted in a proceeding against him where vital witnesses can’t testify, where relevant evidence is “unavailable,” and where some
members of the jury declare their allegiance to defendant instead of fair process, it’s hardly justice. Trump may be acquitted by the Senate, but if the process is fundamentally deficient, a mockery of a system designed to seek the truth, that acquittal will not exonerate him.”
4/ In other words, Trump isn’t exonerated just because he says so. No once could walk away from a criminal trial without going to prison if they committed a murder & there was evidence to prove it. No one else could get away with it.Trump shouldn’t either. He’s not above the law.
