We Elect a President To Be Over the Law

To the editor:

We the people need to screw our heads back on and absorb some reality. First we need to learn that politics and prosecutions do not mix. The currency for law and order is truth and facts, What matters in politics is power. Whether it’s the power of numbers in an election or the power of guns in a revolution – for thousands of years, politics has been the art of projecting and acquiring power.

When the State of New York charged and began prosecuting the leading declared candidate for the U.S. presidency, it set a precedent as illogical as it is ludicrous. “Rent-a-mobs” in the streets of Manhattan chanted, “No one is above the law.” Their claim suggesting that the President, who can and does send drone attacks to kill terrorists, and always has with him a briefcase control center that could unleash a nuclear storm sufficient to destroy all life on the planet can be charged, prosecuted and serve prison time for declaring a disputed asset value on a balance sheet, or negotiating away a personal indiscretion.

By what insanity is a president in charge of enforcing all law, the military and foreign intrigue answerable to anything if he is the most powerful leader in the world. The only recompense faced by a president is removal from power by impeachment, revolution or failing to be reelected. This immunity should also apply temporarily to all prominent candidates for president, from the day they declare until the call of the official election results.

A president so prosecuted would be within his constitutional rights to declare the matter wholly unconstitutional and refuse to submit to that judicial authority. What New York State has done to Donald Trump is the closest precursor to civil war among the states since 1861 and a civil war that cost the lives of half a million Americans. And, yes, the President IS above the law and will remain there until he is removed by votes or bullets.

Don Carpenter Schulenburg