One of the many attacks Donald Trump and his Republican allies have made after being indicted on a number of federal charges is that the former president is the victim of a two-tiered justice system.

There are many people on both sides of the aisle that agree, though not about him being a victim.

"Trump has used privilege and wealth to protect himself from legal accountability, and at every turn, he has lived his entire adult life in the space twixt illegal and unethical," Jon Stewart said on his AppleTV+ show. "He's in the tier where you get the platinum arraignment package. No cuffs. No mugshot. All you can eat fingerprint ink."

Trump had his fingerprinting done digitally, so there was no ink involved.

"You think regular people get to surround themselves with a meat shield of henchmen to go to prison in their place?" Stewart asked showing photos of Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, Allen Weisselberg, Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort and George "Just the Coffee boy" Papadopoulos.

"If you really want to know what tier Donald Trump is in, let's look at an actual fraud we know he was guilty of," said Stewart. He brought up the story of the Trump Org. creating a charity that they raised money into and then spent on themselves as part of their "overhead" expenses. Money wasn't donated out of the charity until it was forced to reckon with the bad press. The judge cited "willful self-dealing" and "embezzlement."

Stewart showed a few headlines of people being charged and imprisoned - none of them Trump.

Law & Crime cited the complaint by national security expert Marcy Wheeler, who said, "Two tiers of justice: Accused Espionage Act defendant walks out with no conditions."

"Other accused Espionage Act defendants have not been permitted to grab Cuban food following their arraignments. Nor were they given more than a calendar year to return the classified materials in question before charges were brought," Law & Crime wrote, citing the Jack Teixeira, who was also charged under the Espionage Act and accused of leaking military documents.

The 21-year-old Air National Guardsman with top-secret security clearance is accused of uploading photos of a number of pages to a Discord chatroom and he has been detained since.

SiriusXM Progress host and comedian Dean Obeidallah cited Teixeira but also mentioned Reality Winner, the U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator who was given a lengthy prison sentence for revealing documents and information. She was denied bail and got five years and three months in prison.

Others include Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Two of them fled to avoid prosecution. Manning was given a 35-year sentence until it was commuted.

See their details at Law & Crime.

You can see Jon Stewart's video below or at the link here.


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