Your answer doesn’t pass my smell test. Yes they can choose NOT to prosecute because, for instance, presidents are too important, but they DID prosecute and they have to say what law was broken and there are sentencing guidelines. If Trump and Fried were both convicted of murder, I’m pretty sure Trump would not just be fined while Fried was jailed. I don’t pretend that Trump will ever face serious consequences but I kind of think there IS a legal reasoning behind the differences in the two cases.

I was with you until

“Trump is a former president who did exactly the same shit that every other former president has done since Washington.”

Every president since Washington has misused campaign funds to pay for silence on an affair, stolen top secret documents, conducted business fraudulently, and plotted multiple attempts to subvert an election?

I must be missing something. If you take that line out I agree with the rest of your comment.