Quite a lot of ink has been split in recent weeks over the supposed problem – perhaps a very big problem – that the years old case of the Stormy Daniels’ payoff might be the first – and perhaps the only – prosecution of Donald Trump. It weakens, so the argument goes, the whole global case against Trump. It’s old, technical, small stuff and ‘why now?’ when Trump needs to be held accountable for the gravest sorts of crimes against the country itself. Trump will clearly try to take iffy nature of a Daniels’ payoff prosecution, use it to make the case that charges against him are all weak and manufactured and then try to use that broad brush to color whatever other more serious charges come later.
All that matters is that there should be a first. But if Alvin Bragg writes First! in his indictment I will fly to new york for the express purpose of smacking him.
Did Trump do the thing he is accused of doing and was it a crime? If yes and yes then the case should go forward whether it’s about an election or trying to keep a very brief sexual encounter secret for political reasons. Doesn’t mean a damned thing to me that it’s first because my hope is that it drives Trump even crazier than he already is, makes his blood pressure spike and perhaps drive him into a deep depression.
