I never, never imagined I’d see the day when Alberto Gonzales would school Jack Goldsmith on how to defend democracy. The unseemliness of the prosecution will most likely grow if the Biden campaign or its proxies use it as a weapon against Mr. Trump if he is nominated. director who put Mr. Trump in a bad light through improper disclosure of F.B.I. For each instance of perceived unfairness Goldsmith cites — again, without explaining who is doing the perceiving — there’s a backstory of how that perception was constructed. Which is the more important insight Gonzales offers: That perceived unfairness Goldsmith merely parrots, unquestioned?

Source: New York Times August 13, 2023 20:20 UTC