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Trump fought the law and the law finally won

The former president faced the reckoning he has long deserved, but the more critical verdict will come on Election Day

    • As the US Supreme Court – which has been a weak ally to justice in the Trump years – has noted in Trump rulings, no American, including presidents, is above the rule of law.
    • As the US Supreme Court – which has been a weak ally to justice in the Trump years – has noted in Trump rulings, no American, including presidents, is above the rule of law. PHOTO: AFP
    Published Fri, May 31, 2024 · 04:38 PM

    DONALD Trump, who turns 78 in June, has spent decades circumventing and flouting civil and civic society. He spent his presidency and the years since going well out of his way to undermine the rule of law. And the law finally caught up to him.

    New York prosecutors said he and his co-conspirators cooked the Trump Organization’s books to mask payments to former lovers, to prevent tales of their trysts from derailing his 2016 presidential bid. A jury of Trump’s peers (two of whom were lawyers) agreed and found him guilty of criminal fraud on Thursday afternoon (May 30).

    Trump, predictably, remained unbowed.

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