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If America’s Legal System Proves Anything it is that the Law and Justice Are not the Same

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If the law and justice were synonymous, Donald Trump would be in a federal detention facility awaiting trial today. In the early 1950’s, two seemingly ordinary citizens were arrested, convicted, and executed for violating the Espionage Act. They were selling our nation’s nuclear secrets to a foreign nation. Trump acted in a similar manner in 2021, and lied about his possession of national secrets two more times, but remains a free man who is allowed to run for the presidency. Something is very, very wrong with this situation. ABOVE THE LAW? Why is Trump given a free pass for two of the most serious crimes anyone can commit against our nation? I watched all three hours of the failed coup attempt on January 6, 2021, and there is no doubt that Trump’s actions and words were the very definition of treason. Between this fact and his violation of the Espionage Act, he should be serving out his decrepit life in a federal prison as I write this. I might understand the w