Guilty. With this word the US election campaign was plunged into chaos. For the first time in history, a former President became a convicted criminal. The conviction perfectly plays into Donald Trump’s narrative; His political opponents are using “lawfare” to destroy him; He is fighting against various witch hunts launched by people who despise him and his voters, the infamous “deplorables” as Hillary Clinton once described them; He may be the convicted man but the “real” target is his supporters. Trump came out of the courtroom with a visceral anger. This was a political prosecution, I’m a “v…
