Opinion: Trump’s Verdict Was No ‘Disgrace.’ The Rule of Law Won.

A legal earthquake of massive proportions hit Lower Manhattan this afternoon. Up to now, while many have carefully referred to the “alleged” charges against the former president, Donald Trump has now been convicted for this behavior related to those charges by a jury of his peers.

In the face of considerable threats to this trial and, by extension, the rule of law, this trial proceeded affording the accused all the protections of due process. Because of that, and the outcome, perhaps the real winner here is that fundamental principal of the American legal system: that no one is above the law.

The former president has faced considerable legal problems before in his life, from bankruptcies, to defamation cases, to civil fraud cases. He has threatened to sue people and has sued others with abandon. He has never been on the business end of a criminal conviction before, however.

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