A Shame and a Woe and a President in the Dock
3 min readMar 31, 2023
Some commentators on Trump’s criminal indictment stress how sad this is for the U.S. that one of their presidents should be taken into custody, photographed for mug shots, fingerprinted and arraigned — how bad it makes the country look in the eyes of the world. But the fact of the matter is that this was an utterly sad, indeed tragic, situation from the start.