Letter to the Editor

The term as currently used, explains using legal statutes as political weapons against an opponent.

Doing so requires a considerable stretch of the imagination, not to mention bending the truth in order to paint its subject guilty as sin.

A perfect example is the recent felony conviction in New York of Donald Trump for falsifying accounting records to shield the facts of his payoff to a porn star. She was paid $130,000 by Trump’s attorney.