Thread by @SethAbramson

Trump is still a blight on America—rather than a federal inmate—because Mueller wouldn’t do what had to be done. Or Garland. Or Alvin Bragg. Or the Fulton County DA. Or the GOP. Or decades of prosecutors. The man remains a danger to us all because our public servants are cowards.

The federal justice system can’t find even *one* man or woman to do the sort of prosecutorial work that state prosecutors gleefully do to incarcerate impoverished Black people many thousands of times a day. And as to Trump—a *career criminal*—this reluctance extends back decades.

I’d have to say that if there’s one thing I’m angry about every day of my life, it’s that as a former public defender I spent *years* watching poorer but better men than Trump—who’d committed fewer and less serious crimes than him—get incarcerated by the State. But Trump is free.

The worst part is that the rich white pols who run the U.S. remain sure there won’t be a big price to pay for allowing two systems of justice in America.

Apparently a coup attempt—led by Trump—didn’t open their eyes.

We’re all suffering for their cowardice—and will continue to.

In Ukraine, farmers and dentists and students and architects have taken up arms to fight for the preservation of their country.

In America, our cowardly prosecutors won’t prosecute insurrectionist leaders because they fear angry phone calls or losing a future election.

*Shame*.

The world is learning many lessons from Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine. And every one of these lessons falls under a single general heading: don’t wait until tomorrow to do the right thing, or let your courage flag when it’s time to do your duty.

Trump should be in prison.