Shall we play a game of pick the real criminal? Come on, it will be fun. On the one hand, we have a 77-year-old man, a former president and a billionaire, whose Gollum-like greed caused him to hoard various boxes of classified documents which he should have returned to the proper authorities. He, or his associates, also fudged various business records possibly to cover up ‘hush money’ payments he made to a porn star. Oh, and he had a massive tantrum about losing an election, tried to overturn the result, and his shenanigans caused some of his supporters to breach the Capitol building in Washington on 6 January, 2021.
On the other, we have a 53-year-old man, the multi-millionaire son of a president, a recovering crack addict with a fondness for prostitutes, waving guns around, sleeping with his late brother’s widow, and making amateur pornography. He used his father’s name and political influence to launch an investment fund that cut deals with shady foreign actors – possibly enriching his father, the then vice-president, in the process.
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