Clinton disguised payment for Steele dossier as legal bill and walked away with fine but Trump to face trial for listing a non-disclosure payment as a legal expense.
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In 2016, two New York-based candidates ran for president. Both listed expenses believed to be tied to their campaigns as legal bills. One, Hillary Clinton, walked away with a fine and no prosecution. The other, Donald J. Trump, is facing trial on 34 felonies in Manhattan state court.
The differing treatments of Clinton and Trump for transactions that are now nearly seven years old has reinvigorated a raging debate about whether America has drifted into a two-tier system of justice rife with seemingly double standards.
Brett Tolman, a former U.S. attorney and Senate Judiciary Committee counsel, said Wednesday the judicial system appears to be lurching toward a point of political weaponization that may have no return.
“I said earlier that we would not truly appreciate the gravity of the moment we are standing in, in terms of its historical significance,” told the Just the News, Not Noise television show. “It’ll be many years probably until we do. But the the reason I’ve said that before is we will start to see now, the political decision making at the highest levels in our in our justice system. And the weaponization is only the beginning.
“It will now be wielded without that sobriety and without that service to the law and the facts. And without the impartiality. So the Lady Justice is no longer blind. The blindfold has been taken off, and whoever wields the sword is the one who is administering justice.”
