Recent reports state that Donald Trump and his lawyers are asking to delay his four separate criminal trials until after the election, so as not to “cripple his chances of being elected.”
That justification is false and dangerous to our democracy. In fact, the opposite is true. Voters need to know whether a presumed candidate for president of the United States is guilty of any of the 91 serious criminal charges against him before the election.
Court trials, conforming to our system of justice, are the best and only way we can know whether an accused person is guilty or not guilty. An innocent candidate for office could be presumed to want the trials’ results before the election. A criminal candidate can be presumed to want to delay his trials until after we have voted.
Delaying trials cripples our chances of knowing if the candidate is a crook.
Bruce Joffe
Piedmont, Calif.
