‘Fruit of a poisonous tree’

Today I share a timely article on the US situation, by Dan Rodricks.

I’ll employ a legal metaphor — “fruit of a poisonous tree” — to trace the path of one of the worst failures in U.S. history: The failure to hold Trump criminally responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Congress, a failure that kept Trump eligible to run for president a third time. […]

Mitch McConnell, the greatest enabler in U.S. history, kept Trump out of prison

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