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The American Leftwing Continues It’s destruction of American law

Paul Craig Roberts

Among many other articles, this article in Mother Jones illustrates how the American left-wing in its mendacity to get someone invariably misses the point. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/donald-trump-prosecution-doj-restitution-theft-january-6-pardons-jack-smith-fbi-raid-230-million/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-12-08-2025

The article begins reasonably. It acknowledges that Texas and New York City have paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to more than 1000 wrongfully convicted people. I myself for many years have documented the story of wrongful conviction. Wrongful conviction in the United States is a more likely result than justice. (See Paul Craig Roberts, The Tyranny of Good Intentions).

Instead of continuing with the article as an important article about wrongful conviction and its extraordinary prevalence, Mother Jones turns the article into an attack on President Trump. President Trump is suing the Biden Department of Justice for $230 million as restitution for the wrongful FBI raid on Trump’s Lago mansion in Florida and for Biden prosecutor Jack Smith’s investigations of Trump for allegedly stealing classified documents and sharing them with others and for Smith’s false assertion that Trump attempted insurrection to overturn the 2020 election. Mother Jones says in fact that Trump is using his authority as President of the United States to steal $230 million from hard-pressed American taxpayers..........more.........