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Trump has been convicted of falsifying business records.

From our perspective, the outrageous thing is that some people are more concerned with whether he violated the law in a business transaction than with the concrete harm he has inflicted on human beings. The fact that so much of the damage he has done was legal shows the worthlessness of the law itself, which is usually used against poor people and to suppress movements against oppression, genocide, and climate change. This particular court outcome will not buy our allegiance to a fundamentally repressive legal system.

As we said in 2018,

"Trump’s goons have been kidnapping your neighbors, preparing to block your access to abortion, openly promoting white nationalism, calling the targets for lone wolf assassins who send mail bombs and shoot up synagogues—and your chief concern is whether what they’re doing is legal?"

https://crimethinc.com/2018/11/09/take-your-pick-law-or-freedom-how-nobody-is-above-the-law-abets-the-rise-of-tyranny