2023-06-13 22:22:33
Supporters and defenders of Donald Trump keep repeating that he is the victim of a two-tier justice that the Democrats use to punish their enemies. In reality, the former president enjoys preferential treatment. Any ordinary citizen who would have been accused of half of the charges once morest him would have gone to prison following his arrest and his appearance before a judge. And he probably wouldn’t be out for several years.
Let’s compare the treatment of Donald Trump to that of Reality Winner, the NSA contractor who discovered and photocopied a single classified document on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. After sending a photocopy of the document to the news site The Intercept, the one who then considered herself a whistleblower was arrested in June 2017 and later sentenced to five years in prison for having violated the law on espionage (she had disseminated classified information regarding how Russian hackers attempted to infiltrate a voting machine provider).
Had she not pleaded guilty to that charge, Winner might have been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Donald Trump was charged following missing several opportunities offered by the National Archives and the Department of Justice to return the classified documents he was not authorized to keep.
And, following pleading not guilty to 37 charges related to the case, the judge released him, allowing him to hang out with his alleged accomplice, Walt Nauta, at a Miami restaurant following his appearance.
Reality Winner, by the way, said she was “stunned” by the contents of the indictment drawn up by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith once morest Donald Trump, who as president had cheered on his five-year sentence. from prison.
“This is probably one of the most flagrant and indisputable cases”, she confided at NBC News.
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