WHY is our justice system so weak that decades of corruption goes unpunished?

[EffieBlack]

10. Law enforcement and the courts have ben begging for resources for decades, but have been caught

in the middle between the anti-government "not another nickel out of my pocket unless it's for prisons" crowd and those on the other side who have been over the years, usually for good reason, wary of law enforcement.

Although he's been a crook for years, I think law enforcement never went after Trump because they just didn't have the time and resources to jump through all the hoops and do the work necessary to untangle his jumble of criminality. And since most of his crimes didn't impose on the public - beyond his failure to pay small contractors, which wasn't necessarily a crime - his bad behavior was all "within the family" of other criminals. His tax evasion, of course, is another story and did have ramifications to the public, but the feds just can't go after every tax evader and trying to get through Trump's byzantine structure was probably not seen as worth it.

It's a sin and a shame, but it's the reality. And I don't think it's all attributable to any wrongdoing or corruption by the FBI or other law enforcement. It's just that the sea is so big and their boat is so small ...