Opinion |
KKK Justice: How Trump Got Away With Murder
You can bet that every one of the jurors believed wholeheartedly that Trump was guilty as charged. The verdict preceded the trial: innocent even if proven guilty
Maybe you know it from the chills up your spine. Or maybe you feel it keeping you up at night, somewhere in your genetic memory, when a mob of livid white people erect a gallows and hunt down the victims they have marked for a grisly killing.
Or maybe you know it from the defendant on trial: rich, white, racist as he is corrupt; a burly, vicious sheriff, maybe, or a venomously hateful, Confederacy-sympathizing governor. Or a man who, until a few weeks ago, was the 45th president of the United States.