When, for the first time in American history, a former president is indicted, my 24-hour rule does not apply.

Yet as I sit down to write this on Thursday night, March 30, 2023, the Manhattan district attorney has not spoken to the press and we have not seen the indictment, so the precise charges against Donald Trump are unknown.

I will say only this much: No matter how you feel about Donald J. Trump - love him or loathe him - this is a dismal day for our country. That is, unless the prosecutor has evidence of a serious crime. If not, this is an unprecedented, ugly case of abuse of prosecutorial power.

A road our country should not travel. How long until a Republican prosecutor somewhere in the 50 states convenes a grand jury to “get” a Democrat.

This Soros-funded prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, who has single-handedly decriminalized an array of street crimes, has gone after Trump over what appears to be a misdemeanor that federal prosecutors looked into and declined to prosecute. It appears Bragg managed to morph a basic campaign bookkeeping error into a more serious crime using some sort of creative legal sleight-of-hand.

But no one is fooled.

More than two years after Trump left the White House and seven years after Trump’s lawyer paid hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, the left remains consumed with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Their hatred for this man continues to consume what’s left of their rational thought. It is impossible to predict what will happen to Trump’s quest to be re-elected now that there is an indictment. The indictment will harden support among Trump’s ardent fans, but it’s difficult to see how it will attract independents and Democrats unhappy with the Biden administration.

This is such an extraordinary and unprecedented act that we truly are entering uncertain territory.

We are not a country where the ruling majority tosses its political opponents in prison to prevent them from being elected.

Or at least we weren’t. 

Until Thursday.