The awesome forces of the US judiciary haven't been deployed against the orange devil because he's committed a serious crime. It's because as an outsider, not a member of the national political camaraderie, he has had the audacity to run for and win a major election without their permission or the endorsement of the media. He is what is now the definition of a populist, a politician who owes nothing to the powers that be and, in fact, is a threat to them because he has a substantial following.
But the lawfare employed against him personally isn't simply a punishment for intruding into a place where he doesn't belong. It's a demonstration of what can happen to the next political interloper. He, or she, will be buried by an avalanche of legal bills greater than the national budget of most Caribbean countries, just as Trump has been. Even if he manages to emerge relatively unscathed from this fiasco, the price will be far higher than the outcome is worth.
In the future, no individual without an existing political base will even consider running for national office. It simply won't be worth the grief. All candidates will be members of the existing nomenclatura.
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