Just a short observation, prompted by this article in today’s New York Times, which details yet more criminal activity on the part of a pre-presidential Donald Trump. We learn from the article that Trump avoided taxes by diverting money to his daughter for “consulting fees”.
It is rarely mentioned that if we had a legal system that went after the rich for their criminal activity, we would never have had a Donald Trump presidency, since he would long ago have started serving a life prison sentence. He has, it is quite clear, run a criminal enterprise throughout his career, for the most part fairly openly, or, let us say, openly enough that it should have drawn the interest of prosecuters. But they would rather concentrate on processing petty criminals through the system, as it’s easier and is an effective way to keep the marginalized in their places. To be fair, it is also the case that at least as far as the IRS is concerned, it lacks the funds to go after the heavy hitters, so it concentrates on going after the little guy.
If the genius does finally end up in prison, it will be solely because he put himself under the political spotlight. Had he stuck to being a TV reality clown, or just the clown he was before his TV show, he would not even today be subject to any criminal investigation.
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