Trump has let allies and supporters avoid centuries of prison time

We got a clear glimpse of what a second Donald Trump presidency would look like on the second night of last year’s Republican National Convention.

The theme of the evening was “Make America Safe Again,” meaning that the endless parade of speakers included law enforcement officials and various elected Republicans bemoaning the rate of crime under then-President Joe Biden.

And then there was Savannah Chrisley, scion of a mid-tier reality-television family. She wasn’t there to reinforce the point made shortly before by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), that Republicans “always will be the advocates for the rule of law.” Instead, Chrisley was there to suggest that the convictions of her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were unfair and political — just like the criminal charges targeting Trump himself. Chrisley noted that her parents had even been referred to as the “Trumps of the South.”