This page shows the source for this entry, with WebCore formatting language tags and attributes highlighted.

Title

Special Master

Description

I've read that a so-called special master has been appointed to oversee the dissemination of information from the files seized in the raid of Trump's Mar-el-Lago resort. I've also read that this will significantly delay the release of information. I think it's ok in the sense that I'm interested in justice being served for Trump as well as anyone else. That is, if the information were to be disseminated by an extremely unfriendly press and Twitterati, then it would be very likely that we would be subjected to yet another trial-by-media rather than an actual trial. Those kinds of trial tend to confirm what people already believe---or want to believe---rather than actually coming up with anything like the truth. If the conclusion of a trial-by-media also happens to be true, then it's purely a coincidence. I've also read from some who should know better that it's unfair for Trump to get a special master to manage the information resulting from the investigation into his affairs when nearly no-one else in the country is afforded the same benefit. Anyone who's not rich and famous gets their face plastered all over Facebook by local police departments as soon as they're arrested. They have their names dragged through the mud even before they're charged, arraigned, or convicted. The answer to this isn't, for me, that we should apply this same unfair system to Trump---and his rich/famous colleagues. The answer is that we should apply the fair system to <i>everyone</i>, not just the rich and famous. This seems highly unlikely, so people settle for demanding that <i>everyone</i> be treated unfairly and unjustly, rich or poor.