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For everyone complaining about the horrible treatment of Trump, read this story [1]

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Date: 2023-04-06  

Tim Miller over at the Bulwark has a story that puts the treatment of Criminal Defendant Trump in perspective:

Here’s how it starts:

JORDAN HAMLETT KNOWS how it feels to get railroaded. To be targeted by a politicized indictment. To sit in a courtroom agonizing over how this could possibly be his life, when he was only trying to fix a problem.

In other words: everything Donald Trump has claimed he’s experienced, only for real.

But like so many others who have suffered miscarriages of justice, Hamlett didn’t have the tools that the former president has used to push back against the system. When Johnny Law came for Jordan Hamlett, the boys in blue didn’t let him surrender on his own by way of a private jet. Or make exceptions to help him avoid a humiliating detainment. They didn’t spare him the mug shot or the ankle bracelet. Or keep his house nice and tidy during their raid.

Hamlett doesn’t have his own social media network where he can live-bleat his grievances. Or throngs of supporters sending him $47 for hagiographic merch. Or senators warning about the imminent threat to the republic were he to be held to account. Or a media ecosystem that sustains itself through spreading the good news of his martyrdom.

Hell, while he was under house arrest during pretrial release, they didn’t even let him keep his cell phone or laptop to contact the outside world.

All Jordan Hamlett was left with after he was targeted was Donald Trump’s Social Security number; 27 months’ worth of isolation, pain, and regret; and the scars that form after the government tries to make an example out of you for reasons other than justice.

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[1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/6/2162503/-For-everyone-complaining-about-the-horrible-treatment-of-Trump-read-this-story

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