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The NYT rejected my latest comment:

Manhattan District Attorney Bragg’s closing down the grand jury proceedings on possible Trump criminal activities reminds me of Pulitzer-Prize-winning Jesse Eisinger’s book, THE CHICKENSHIT CLUB.

The title came from Southern New York Federal Attorney James Comey’s first meeting with his prosecutorial staff. He asked his prosecutors “Have any of you ever lost a case? If so, please raise your hand.” Not a hand came up. Then Comey said “You are all members of the …

Keith, thanks. Explaining away Trump's routine escape from prosecution after a lifetime of criminal activity, including sedition in an attempt to overthrow the American government with prosecutorial ambition is a partial explanation.

The most important part of the this story is how two career lawyers spent FIVE years pursuing charges and were in the final grand jury indictment process. That would have wound up pretty soon and the fact that the new NY DA short circuited it is of great impor…

“Who wants to have one of their kids disappear for going after a loser like Trump? Nobody.” I agree, Mike. I also know that our IRS - as a tool to fight this corruption- has been systemically underfunded for decades making it unable to pursue high net-worth corruption. You need excellence and time to peruse these corrupt power-mongers. IRS cannot afford the best and brightest, nor have they extensive time to deeply untangle the intentionally made knot of secrecy needed to peruse these case…

Yes, the IRS has limited funding, but, they DO go after people and they NEVER went after Trump.