Dark forces? No, just the rule of law

It was announced this week that Paul Pelosi, husband of the powerful Democratic Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, recently spent two days in prison. The 82-year-old multimillionaire stock trader was caught drunk driving in May after causing a car crash.

He must therefore attend a three-month course for drunk drivers, give a breath test before driving in the future - and pay a fine of almost $ 7,000.

Complaints from the Republican Party that Pelosi's alcohol test represents a "witch hunt" have not yet been reported. Nor are there voices in Donald Trump's party that complain about the verdict's "politicized judiciary" or call for the abolition of the police force in Nappa County.

Republicans also refrained from claiming that Joe Biden personally ordered Pelosi's prison sentence. The party doesn't even like to talk about "dark forces" or George Soros.

Why is this important? Because the Republicans still see every legal investigation against their secret chairman Trump as evidence of a “politicized judiciary”. Trump himself has been talking about a “witch hunt” for years. His party, his disciples adopt the vocabulary, pepper this fairy tale with conspiracy theories.

For example, when the search warrant for the FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was published. Or when the Ministry of Justice has now published parts of the document with which the authorities had obtained the judicial search warrant.

A few hours earlier, Trump had set the tone in a fit of rage on his network Truth Social. The raid was the "largest political attack in US history". Ah yes. Now, as he has been doing for years, he speaks of a "witch hunt" against him.

He wants to prevent further inspection of government documents by the government. The ex-president, who likes to rail against the state, acts according to a motto that has no tradition in the USA: "I am the state."

With the safekeeping of secret and most secret government documents, Trump is once again showing a high-handed demeanor that no president or former president has ever shown. It's good that the US judiciary is finally investigating Trump.

The conviction of Paul Pelosi and the investigation into Donald Trump, two very different cases, show that the rule of law in the USA works.

Nobody is above the law, neither an 82-year-old multi-millionaire who is married to the most powerful woman in America nor an ex-president who, as a would-be autocrat, has been violating all of America's political norms for years and celebrates himself for doing so. By the way: Paul Pelosi has now pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol.