The Stossel TV Studio is just a block from Trump Tower.<br /><br />The day of the big indictment, noisy helicopters hovered, with sidewalks pointlessly blocked by the usual politics/media excess: too many barricades manned by too many bored police officers.<br /><br />The predicted “big demonstration!” and “possible violence” weren’t visible.<br /><br />Donald Trump left for the courthouse around 1 p.m. to turn himself in.<br /><br />He was booked and fingerprinted at the courthouse.<br /><br />He then pled not guilty to the 34-count charge of falsifying records to hide hush money payments.<br /><br />Presidents should not be above the law, but neither should they face politically motivated charges.<br /><br />Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg campaigned on opposing Trump, bragging, “I have sued Trump more than a hundred times!”<br /><br />He suggested he would be the best choice to get Trump before he even saw the evidence.<br /><br />That’s just wrong. Federal prosecutors did see the evidence and decided against charging Trump.<br /><br />Using campaign funds to pay someone to keep silent about sex may well violate the rules, but most campaign-finance rules are useless, and no serious person thinks this case would ever be brought against anyone other than Trump.<br /><br />This is a slippery slope to banana republic.<br />On the other hand, Trump definitely is a horrible person.<br /><br />In his real-estate business, he cheated the little people, cleverly using our slow and expensive justice system to avoid paying what he owed.<br /><br />As president, he was unpresidential and childish.<br /><br />He’s vain, selfish and mean.<br /><br />He doesn’t read or listen to advice from smart people, and he lies again and again.
