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Alvin Bragg put the Ham in the Ham Sandwich

It what may have been the first instance of “look, but don’t touch – you’ll break it!” justice, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg got his man and indicted Donald Trump for, um, doing something a whole bunch of other, un-charged people have done before.

The indictment – Trump used his lawyer to make a payment of his own money to a hooker – immediately engenders cries of “what about-ism?”

Often, such complaints are somewhat like pass interference call disputes – the same thing happened at the other end of the field and it wasn’t called so why was this – UNFAIR!!  Don’t be so childish, the world’s not fair, the ref was looking the other way, etc.

In this case, though, the complaint is more than valid and there are numerous examples of this exact kind of infraction being aggressively overlooked.  John Edwards used actual campaign money to pay off his girlfriend and Hilary Clinton funneled campaign money through her (and the party’s) lawyers to pay for a direct campaign expense – the Steele dossier – which, while it ended up not having too much of an impact in 2016, absolutely devastated the Trump presidency.

Both cases involved campaign – not personal – money and both cases had specific and direct election-related implications.  Bragg is arguing the payment was campaign-related so Trump could avoid embarrassment, but it is a bit doubtful that Trump supporters would have been shocked – SHOCKED I say! – to learn he had had an affair with a physically disproportionate porn star.

Another unforced Trump error, another example of selective prosecution.

As the case is moving forward in Manhattan, Trump will eventually be found guilty unless an honest judge says um, wait a sec…