Trump, Running Out the Clock

I MUST CONFESS that my interest in the "Epstein Affair" has never been especially pronounced. National Enquirer stuff, normal for Trump. Whether I ever know the actual truth about all this sordid stuff, I will forever regard Trump as a reprobate and sexual miscreant, if for no other reason than his reputation, an abundance of anecdotal material, and his own ill considered utterances, such as the one in which he expressed an attraction to his daughter. I despised the man long before he entered politics as a candidate, for his obvious lack of moral decency and intellect. Towards the Epstein "scandal" I have a somewhat "ho hum so what" attitude, and have no doubt whatsoever that Trump is a pedophile, and that he has engaged in a veritable plethora of illegal and immoral sexual conduct. It may be that paying prostitutes is the most honest, honorable thing he has ever done. Trump has never been documented to have done anything kind or generous for anybody. Everything he does is based, quite obviously, on his own personal interest. I also have no doubt that the Epstein files are full of highly incriminating information on Trump, having to do with inappropriate sexual contact with underage girls. No doubt at all. Its just that there are only so many times that you can convict someone of a crime and send him or her to prison. You can indict, try, and convict incessantly,but if the criminal can delay infefinitely or avoid jail althogether through the machinations of law and politics, what good does it do? The relevant question is: what sentence would any ordinary, competant, honest judge and jury normally hand down to a defendant found guilty of thirty four felonies? Also relevant is the question of what will become of Trump in the criminal justice system after he leaves the presidency, assuming that he lives through it or doesn't crown himself president for life? Will the wheels of justice, having been placed on hold for four years, finally begin turning again, leading to more indictments, trials, and convictions? And if so, will the then eighty two year old Trump see the inside of a prison cell? The answer to that seems to be "no". Somewhat fondly, in a strange sort of way, I recall the Nixon Watergate scandal, which at the time seemed so serious and shockingly criminal, but now, by today's standards seems far less severe. The entire country, Republicans included, rose up in outrage against "Trickie Dick", making his resignation necessary. Otherwise he would likely been tried, convicted, and incarcerated if not pardoned. Arguably, unpopular as it was at the time, the pardon Nixon got from President Ford was, in retrospect, perhaps the best way of getting the country through this constitutional crisis relatively unscathed. If Trump's successor is a republican, you can bank on him or her granting Trump a full pardon. If a Democrat, the wheels of justice will probably resume, with the Trump legal team probably able to delay the process sufficiently to allow Trump to live out the rest of his life without further felony convictions or any jail time. I don't care one way or the other. To my way of thinking, the damage has already been done, the presidency has been sullied, the nation stained by Trump, and our only true recousre is to now gently allow the infamous Trump phenomenon to slide away ignominiously into the proverbial dust bin of history. Hell,having sex with underage girls is but one of many disgusting parts of Trump's sahdy, sordid life. The most disgusting of all is what he has done to everyone else.