I didn’t say that getting away with something is a defense for the next accused. What I meant is that, unless you have contemporaneous records of your outrage about the Clintons’ similar issues, and Biden’s, you have no credibility here.

add to that the unaccountable crimes of the razorback, zaphod, and scranton crimes and I say no

Assume that the prosecutor has failed to charge other people who committed the same crime, but then he decides to charge you anyway. That’s bad form and potentially abusive, but it’s not going to be a defense if you’ve actually committed the crime. “Your honor, I may be guilty as sin, but the prosecutor shouldn’t have charged me because he didn’t charge this other guy for doing the same thing!” That argument doesn’t get you very far.

This whole thing is just typical of what you get with Trump though. It is very clear that Democratic administrations have abused their power by failing to charge Democrats with mishandling of classified information crimes. So what does Trump do? He goes out and commits a classified information crime! I suppose he’s provided a (minor) service by so vividly demonstrating the double standard and the corruption of Biden administration. But he very likely committed a crime! Just like Hillary. Just like Biden.

If the prosecutor hates you, about the dumbest thing you can do is go violate the letter of the law and dare him to indict you. That’s basically what Trump has done.

Think Clint Eastwood. “Go ahead. Make my day.” So Trump did.

If the PRA doesn’t give Trump a right to possess and share the documents, then possessing and sharing them was a criminal act, no?

Now Bragg is another matter. (Although I’m not as enamored of the “celebrites pay hush money to porn stars all the time” argument as you are.)