Here’s how Donald Trump and all of his goons end up in prison

| 2:00 pm EDT August 15, 2020
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New York State keeps advancing its criminal case against Donald Trump, making it clear that Trump is going to prison on state charges if he loses the election. But he’s just one person in the vast criminal conspiracy that’s defined the Trump administration.

This raises the question of how we go about criminally prosecuting Donald Trump’s vast network of henchmen after this is over. It only takes a few minutes to come up with a list of at least a hundred Trump underlings and allies who have committed provable felonies over the past four years. How do we even approach their prosecution?

Congressman Eric Swalwell tweeted this: “I don’t say this lightly: when we escape this Trump hell, America needs a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president.”

To be clear, this isn’t just some abstract idea. Swalwell is a former prosecutor, so he’s speaking from experience on how the law works. But before we can put Donald Trump and his co-conspirators in prison, we first have to win the election – and that requires working overtime on things like voter registration and voter turnout, so the margin of victory is too large for any cheating to make a difference.