far easier for
guilty man to stand trial
than innocent one

As a man who has had both experiences, I can tell you that it’s far, far easier for a guilty man to stand trial than an innocent one.

When you are guilty you are depending entirely upon your legal rights; the maze of protections, legal maneuvers, and loopholes that can help you beat the rap.

You have no qualms whatsoever about using them; the law says you have that right.

When you are innocent you are always in a rage of indignation.

You feel helpless and put upon.

You are totally on the defensive.

Constantly you have to fight back the desire to leap up and scream out your innocence.

You can’t believe that this massive grinding machinery can be doing this to you.

From the book Where the Money Was by Willie Sutton, (Viking, New York, 1976).

Willie Sutton was a famous bank robber who may have been more famous by responding, “That’s where the money is.” when he was asked why he robbed banks.

It was his description of the difference between a guilty person and an innocent person on trial; that caught my eye.

Especially when I applied to politics today.

There is this feller that many agree is guilty as sin and yet he evades any and all punishment.

He is depending entirely upon his legal rights; the maze of protections, legal maneuvers, and loopholes that can help him beat the rap and he has no qualms about using them.

I feel a rage of indignation.

I feel helpless.

I feel totally on the defensive.

I constantly you have to fight back the desire to leap up and scream out that there is a difference between innocence and this guy.

And finally, I can’t believe that this massive grinding machinery can be doing this to you.

Deep down I feel those who support this feller know they are wrong.

Someday … the race is not always to the swift or to the strong.

the least qualified –
remarkably dishonest …
he’s also depraved

Then there was a different camp — normie Republican — that had an entirely different view. They did not believe Trump’s words. They rolled their eyes at media alarmism and responded with some version of “stop clutching your pearls. This is just Trump being Trump. He’s far more bark than bite.”

But Trump’s selection of Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, along with his selection of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, shows that Trump did mean what he said. He is going to govern with a sense of vengeance, and personal loyalty really is the coin of his realm.

Gaetz’s nomination is particularly dreadful. He isn’t just the least-qualified attorney general in American history (he barely practiced law before running for elected office and has served mainly as a MAGA gadfly in Congress), he’s also remarkably dishonest and depraved.

I want to stay off of politics if I can but when someone like David French can string together the sentence “He isn’t just the least-qualified attorney general in American history (he barely practiced law before running for elected office and has served mainly as a MAGA gadfly in Congress), he’s also remarkably dishonest and depraved.” in the opinion piece, Trump’s Choice of Matt Gaetz Should Surprise No One, I have to take notice of the words least-qualified, remarkably dishonest and depraved being in used in context of a nominee for Attorney General.

People on the other side of the divide have tried to explain how their candidate was ‘imperfect’ and was making statements just to get elected.

Well, this candidate continues to make statements, continues to make a mockery of this country and of the people who felt they could somehow support him but seperate themselves from what is to come.

Good luck.

Mr. French closes with: Gaetz’s nomination is reaffirmation that the Donald Trump who tried to overthrow an American election hasn’t matured or evolved or grown.