Ever since the indictments were announced against Donald Trump Republicans.
In fact, hell, to be honest, ever since Trump claimed he was gonna be indicted on Tuesday,
Republicans have all been saying the same thing.
Whether it's the people at Fox News, the ones at Newsmax, the idiots, influencers on Twitter,
or even Republican members of Congress, the tune has been the same.
And it is, if they can prosecute Trump, what's to stop them from prosecuting other politicians?
What a chilling effect this has on our democracy, right?
Well, no.
If anything, we should look at this prosecution not as setting a terrible precedent, but as
setting a glorious precedent.
Now, admittedly, you could say I'm biased against Donald Trump, cuz I sure as hell,
I am despised the guy.
Everything about him is horrible.
But at the same time, I'm not so tribal that I am completely opposed to holding politicians
accountable.
You know, we're hearing Republicans tell us, oh, the slippery slope of political prosecutions,
that is a slippery slope that we should approach.
Like it's a frigging water slide.
This is super fun and awesome, right?
But what these Republicans really fear is not the chilling effect it'll have.
What they fear is the accountability itself in that system, that system that has existed
in Washington DC for centuries.
We protect our own.
We don't go after our own.
That's why when Obama came into office, Eric Holder decided not to prosecute the war criminals
from the Bush administration.
That's probably why when Trump came to office, he didn't aggressively try to prosecute Hillary
Clinton, right?
I mean, he said lock her up the whole time he was running for office in 2016, didn't
launch an investigation, right?
They protect one another.
But because of, well, not that there was anything to prosecute Hillary Ford, don't get me wrong.
Um, but with Trump, it became so egregious and it became so outlandish and it became
so apparent that you couldn't ignore it anymore.
These politicians couldn't turn the other way.
The justice system couldn't turn a blind eye to it anymore.
And that is the precedent that we shouldn't be fearing.
We should be welcoming.
How many reports over the last couple of years have we seen about members of Congress basically
engaging in insider trading, Democrats and Republicans?
By the way, now if you or I did that right now as a private citizen, we would be prosecuted
and sent to jail.
They pay a $200 fine for it in Congress.
That's
It.
So what really scares these Republicans, as I've said, is the accountability.
Well, if they can prosecute him for this, what's to stop them from prosecuting me for
trading stocks based on knowledge I have from my committee assignment?
What's to stop them from coming after me for all of these false statements on my campaign?
Finance disclosure, that's what they're afraid of.
The slippery slope is not, oh, we're gonna take out our political enemies using the justice
system.
No, it's all these petty little borderline criminal acts that politicians of both parties
have been getting away with forever.
That now maybe the justice system will take a second look at it and say, wait a minute,
if we would throw a regular person in jail for this, maybe we ought to start doing it
to you two.
There is a slippery slope here, but it's a good one that we should all embrace.