Post-Trump Justice: Prosecute the Criminals
Exhaustion is not an excuse for absolving criminals of their illegal acts.
It’s time to look beyond the 2026 and 2028 elections and ask one of the most consequential questions in American history: Will the Trump Administration be held accountable for its sweeping crimes?
It’s not enough to go after individual acts of illegality. Democrats must erect a framework that encompasses the totality of the Trump era’s blatant disregard for the law. Watergate was about the actions of a president. The post-Trump legal process is the prosecution of a vast criminal conspiracy.
The first Trump presidency ended with the most violent assault on the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812. The majority of Republican Members of Congress voted not to certify an election won by eight million votes. Donald Trump was recorded demanding that the Georgia Secretary of State falsify votes to give him a victory in a state he lost by over 8,000 votes. Trump left office in possession of highly classified national security documents. After refusing to return them for over a year, the FBI raided his home.
After leaving the presidency, Donald Trump was indicted by four grand juries in four jurisdictions:
In Manhattan, Trump was indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
In Washington, he was indicted on four felony counts for 2020 election interference
In Florida, he was indicted on 40 counts of mishandling classified documents
In Georgia, he was indicted on 13 counts of election interference
That’s a total of 91 felony counts. The only case that went to trial was in Manhattan, where Trump was convicted of 34 felonies.
The legal system failed to hold Trump accountable, paving the way for his 2024 victory. This cannot happen again when Trump leaves office.