The former president may or may not have a convincing legal defense. But he will have a strong political argument to make about our two-tiered justice system.
As we’ve been observing here for the last couple of weeks, it appears that an indictment of former president Donald Trump by the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, is imminent. The indictment would be based on Trump’s unlawful retention of national-defense intelligence at Mar-a-Lago, his resort club and estate in Palm Beach, and it would center on his obstruction of a federal grand jury’s probe of that retention.
