Charles Littlejohn was sentenced today to five years in prison for stealing the tax returns of Donald Trump and thousands of other rich people. But Trump himself has been silent about this. Why isn't he crowing?
That's easy. Littlejohn didn't work for the IRS. He was a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor. He was caught by Joe Biden's Treasury Department; prosecuted by Joe Biden's Justice Department; and given the maximum sentence from a judge appointed by Joe Biden. This doesn't fit well with Trump's insistence that he's being persecuted solely as a Biden revenge op.
Which isn't to say that some of Trump's allies aren't trying. They're complaining that Littlejohn should have been charged more harshly. Or that he probably had a partner who's being protected. Or that Booz Allen Hamilton is a known den of Democratic sympathy and never should have received an IRS contract. But that's just noise. Trump himself knows better than to acknowledge something helpful that came out of the Biden administration.
And yet the man remains on the opposite side of the bars where Littlejohn is ...
Is there anything happening in this world that can’t be spun into a conspiracy against Trump?
I had lunch today. Wonderful conspiracy against Trump and white people and God, all at once.
It was totally vicitmizing. The real victimizing.
"and given the maximum sentence from a judge appointed by Joe Biden. "
While true, that is also misleading.
Actually, he stole multiple tax returns for different people: Charles Littlejohn was given the maximum sentence for stealing one tax return. A true, maximum sentence would have been materially longer....
Crickets from Glenn Greenwald too, who clearly opposes jailing those who leak government documents under most circumstances, having made his career out of it.
I think Glenn is best understood as a lawyer, in that he makes the best possible argument for the clients who pay him (and was his profession prior to blogging). He's no longer a journalist as that title requires a sincere effort to find the objective truth and is thus completely at odds with lawyering.
The fact that so many politicians come from a legal background explains a lot about their behavior. Their donors are their clients.
If the shoe was on the other foot, Trump would have already issued a pardon.
He should be pardoned. The man is a national hero.