From Jefferson Davis to Donald Trump

Donald Trump has made much of the fact that three of the prosecutors who are heading prosecutions against him are Black: Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia; Letitia James, the attorney general of New York; and Alvin Bragg, the district attorney of Manhattan. Trump has labelled the three prosecutors “racist,” calls Bragg an “animal” and James “Peekaboo,” and insists that the charges against him are both politically and racially motivated. Sometimes it feels as if the century and a half separating the trial of Jefferson Davis from the trials of Donald Trump were as nothing.

What Happened When The U.S. Failed To Prosecute An Insurrectionist Ex-President, The New Yorker

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