Dope: I think it extremely unlikely that Trump gets a fair trial anywhere in the state of New York.

Ooohh, I think he did. You only needed one juror to disagree and there would have been some counts acquitted and possibly all counts. One juror said they did get news from Truth Social via X. Your idea of a fair trial is that it's never brought to trial because the prosecutor is a Trumpian.

The world doesn't have to conform to my thinking, I have to bring my thinking around to conform with the world. I'm allowed to imagine a better world, but I'd better be practical about the possibilities, pragmatic.

The prosecutors weren't devious and the judge wasn't against you, he put up with and dealt with real problems from Trump. I know that you know Trump is a criminal, but you want that part of him to do criminal things that you like. I don't want the law to be flouted frivolously, but I do recognize there are times when you have to disobey the law out of necessity. In fact I read a paper by Thomas Jefferson on it and he expressed my own thoughts better than I did. When life, liberty, and property are at stake there is no time to go through bureaucratic niceties, you must act quickly and decisively to save lives, etc. In circumstances such as those any reasonable person should say - the President broke the law, but with good reason, and we're glad he did and agree with his decision. We can argue later that the circumstances weren't dire enough, or the threat wasn't really there, but at the time, what was known? What was perceived?

A mockery is made of the law by people who think you can contrive reasons to do what you want. Justify flouting the law because you want to claiming flimsy pretext that is easily seen through. Let's stay away from the flimsy pretext until life, liberty , or property are on the line.