# Are Trump, Gaetz and the like being selectively prosecuted and if so is that a bad thing?

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**Created:** [May 28, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-trump-gaetz-and-the-like-being-selectively-prosecuted-and-if-so-is-that-a-bad-thing/943116 "2021-05-28T20:03:25Z")
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### Author: ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-trump-gaetz-and-the-like-being-selectively-prosecuted-and-if-so-is-that-a-bad-thing/943116/18 "2021-06-01T01:35:33Z")

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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> Also even though he is a tax cheating schmuck its not clear that he is any more of a tax cheating schmuck than any of the other real estate developers of his station.

Well, maybe. But trump used the power of his office to hide his records and thus delay prosecution for years. Other tax cheating schmucks are unable to do this.

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