The prosecution's failure to identify the alleged 'second crime' made the trial unconstitutional, legal experts suggest

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“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

Poetry can encapsulate in one line a whole myriad of ideas and themes, questions and answers, grand schemes and subtle nuances. It can be complementary and contradictory at the same time. Life can be like that.

Donald Trump, for instance, is odious, immoral and unethical. While his recent New York criminal trial was also odious, almost certainly unconstitutional and unlawful.

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That Trump was railroaded seems undeniable but the underlying currents from the trial’s fallout will have far-reaching consequences, not just for Trump, but for Democrats and Republicans, for American society, and for future presidents.

All this from the prosecution of one tarnished man.

After Trump was found guilty last week by a jury of 12 men and women, U.S. President Joe Biden said, “The American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed.”

But the principle that everyone is entitled to a fair trial was abandoned.

Biden continued, “And it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”

He may have a point, but the criticism of the system doesn’t make it any less true.

Many people believe Trump was convicted of false accounting to cover up hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

But that wasn’t the........

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