Why hasn’t Trump been charged?

Why isn’t Trump in jail? It’s only fair that he should be. Fairness is hard to define and even harder to achieve, but the sense of it is instinctive. Children know.

Fairness put into legal effect is justice, and justice is famously blind because it treats all people impartially, regardless of status.

What crimes should he be tried for? Pick from sexual crime, financial crime, homicide by negligence, and treason.

Twenty or so women have accused Trump of sexual assault, going back decades. On the Access Hollywood tape he boasts of doing exactly what he’s accused of. Why hasn’t he been charged?

Trump is a bundle of psychopathic urges dressed in a suit and red hat. He wants sex, so he takes it. He wants money, so he takes that too. His supposed university was a scam and has been closed down. His supposed charity was a scam and has been closed down. He’s undoubtedly laundered foreign money through his real estate. ‘‘We get all the money we need out of Russia,’’ said one of his sons.

But, as with Al Capone, the way to get him is on his taxes. You can guarantee he’s cheated on his taxes, which is why he’s refused to release his returns. As president, Trump took an oath to protect his country and its citizens. But when a pandemic occurred he ignored scientific advice, called the virus a hoax and held events that spread the disease. Over half a million Americans have died. Why hasn’t Trump been charged with homicide by wilful negligence?

Hundreds of Trump supporters have been charged with violently invading the Capitol. They invaded because they believed Trump won the election. And they believed that because Trump told them. Without Trump’s lie no crime would have occurred. They were the criminal foot soldiers, but he was the criminal commander. Why hasn’t he been charged?

It may be that the Department of Justice is still cocking its gun. I hope so. If Trump goes on trial he’ll be exposed for the malignant conman he is. But if he isn’t charged, that’s that. Justice will not have been done. The grifters and parasites will be emboldened. And a new and worse Trump will arise for them to slobber over.