Will Trump and His Top Officials Face Prosecution from the International Criminal Court

When the Trump administration is viewed in the cold light of history, which one(s) of its atrocities will be best remembered?  Because of its import to the nation and its democracy as a whole, it’s a good bet that the number one abomination will be the assault on rule of law, i.e., how Trump assembled a team of henchmen, chiefly Bill Barr, to rig the entirety of the U.S. Justice Department in the president’s favor, an entirely unprecedented feat in our nation’s past.

It would be wrong to rule out other acts of savagery, however.  Take the imprisonment of children, many of them quite tiny, at the U.S. southern border. I know I speak for the majority of my fellow Americans in hoping that the international justice community comes down hard on the three names in the meme here, and that they live out their days in the same prisons that confine many of the world’s other architects of mass mayhem, torture, and genocide.

Concerning Trump personally, it’s far more likely that, if he remains in the United States after he leaves office, that he’ll be indicted, tried, and convicted of any of dozens of different crimes by state and federal authorities here in the U.S.  But one never knows.