CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

During the second presidential debate in the USA, Donald Trump responded to a jibe made by Hilary Clinton by saying that were he president then she would be in jail. The economist Paul Krugman said that people needed to be alert that a presidential hopeful had just threatened to imprison his opponent.

In the event President Trump took no action against Clinton and the matter was consigned to history as banter.

However, it is increasingly the case on both sides of the Atlantic that the Left are tying to imprison their political opponents. The tendency also applies across the EU. In the UK there has been a cack-handed attempt to imprison Tommy Robinson and another attempt is looming. Others have also been targeted.

In the USA, more high profile figures have been subjected to a witch-hunt and some have even been put in jail. President Trump has himself been the target of a criminal investigation. Trump has now been exonerated. He is right to raise the issue that those who peddle criminal allegations against others should not themselves escape justice unscathed.

What is happening is political correctness in practice. It is an inquisition.