The Eye of the Beholder

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/trump-scandals.html

("For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads toward a Moment of Judgment")

Mr. Baker's recitation of the history of Donald Trump's wrongdoing is mind blowing and mind numbing in the same instant. 

For those who find Mr. Trump an obscenity, what he has done with impunity throughout his lifetime is  staggering in both proportion and meaning. It should disqualify him not merely from the office of the presidency but from any position where he has the power or opportunity to inflict harm.

But for the remainder of this country, Donald Trump has become a mythic hero. The vastness of the scope of charges mere evidence of an unrelenting attack by his adversaries to bring low a man who refuses to break or bend. No matter the proofs behind them, no matter the determinations against him, they were mere subterfuge, each and every one of them. Victimized in one, victimized in all. 

And thus, this essay can bizarrely serve as Exhibit A for both the prosecution and the defense. Each side accusing the other of having gone down the rabbit hole. Each demanding the other open their eyes to the truth of what is happening.

Mr. Trump's mug shot a clear picture for both Dems and Republicans of what this man has become.