My immediate take in my latest column in the New York Post:

Not everything that’s bad in politics is illegal – especially in a country that has the First Amendment. Joe Biden’s Department of Justice seems to have forgotten that. At least, that’s the conclusion to be drawn from the latest federal indictment of Donald Trump. . . . Trump did a lot of unethical and dishonest things, and the Senate should have convicted him in his impeachment trial. Impeachment, as the British philosopher and Member of Parliament Edmund Burke argued, should be “tried before Statesmen and by Statesmen, upon solid principles of State morality.” But crimes are supposed to be about the law – which has to be plain enough to govern us all. No criminal charges like this have ever been brought before, and it is far from clear that any law was broken. . . . Maybe Smith thinks there’s so many charges against Trump now that nobody should care about the details. But in a nation of laws, the rules matter. Even for Donald Trump.