Why hasn’t Trump been arrested?

Persons who commit crimes usually try to hide their criminality unless they’re supremely stupid or supremely arrogant. One who hasn’t is Donald Trump.

His last year in office was one long crime spree against American democracy and the American people…in plain sight. He spent most of his last year refusing to take seriously a pandemic that has infected 36,414,944 Americans, of which 632,582 have died. Instead of doing everything in his power to support the scientists calling for masks, social distancing and vaccinations, he undermined their efforts by politicizing them, first as a Democratic hoax, then as an attack on our freedom.

The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health estimates that Trump’s negligence and overt undermining of pandemic health measures are responsible for approximately 40% of U.S. deaths. One can make a strong case that Trump’s conduct amounts to violations of his oath of office resulting in voluntary manslaughter of many thousands.

We don’t have to guess what his violations were. He spewed them out daily on Twitter, press conferences and political rallies, some of which became superspreader events he was specifically warned not to do by pandemic science experts.

There is more, involving less deaths but more overt criminality. He incited a mob of thousands of supporters to attack the Capitol in order to stop the certification of his re-election defeat. They nearly succeeded but for the heroic efforts by Capitol and DC police. Over 130 officers were injured with one dying of two strokes after being pepper sprayed by rioters. Four more officers committed suicide in the days and months afterword. Had Congresspersons been injured or killed, Trump was ready to declare a national emergency to nullify his loss to Joe Biden. Trump didn’t incite the mob in secret. He did it on national television.

A third crime, was calling election officials in Georgia demanding they overturn the certified vote for Joe Biden. His calls were taped precisely because those election officials needed proof Trump was committing election fraud, not doing his job as president. They knew no one would believe their word of his blatant criminality without evidence.

Alas, the wheels of justice turn slowly. But we are not faced here with one time crime in the past. Trump has essentially maintained his ‘pandemic is a hoax’ and ‘an attack on our freedom’ memes, getting unvaccinated Americans killed every day. He continues to incite his dead end believers about his defeat he claims was stolen. Security officials worry January 6, in some form, could happen again. Tho he’s no longer calling election officials to overturn the election, he’s cheerleading his entire party’s efforts to suppress the votes of the less privileged.

Trump the criminal is still on the loose committing crimes against our democracy and our people in plain sight. Why hasn’t he been arrested?