14 March—Donald Trump may be able to avoid prosecution for all the crimes he committed, is committing, and will commit as SICOTUS (Scumbag-in-Chief of the United States), thanks to a dangerously dogmatic, monumentally injudicious, and thoroughly thoughtless conservative Supreme Court majority, but the incompetent, malignant boobs who actually do the dirty work on his behalf aren’t above the law. At least they won’t be once his pernicious administration has bitten the dust and Democrats and real Republicans retake the government, hopefully starting this November and culminating with a total victory for the good guys in 2028.

At the top of the dung heap of Trump’s criminals, of course, is his psychopathic warlord Pete Hegseth, who, through more than mere incompetence, must take responsibility for mass murders, which are being committed even at his writing. At trial, Hegseth and the other blatantly culpable Trump lackeys will fall on the lame Nuremberg Nazi defense that they were just following orders. But it didn’t work for Hitler’s criminals and it won’t work for Trump’s.

Hegseth and likely other Trump flunkies in the defense (war), homeland security, and justice departments—and doubtless other rogue agencies—should be charged with capital offenses, punishable by death. Note that the last federal execution took place four days before Trump’s first reign of terror ended in 2021 and last year SICOTUS made a big deal of reinstating and aggressively expanding the death penalty right after he slithered back into office. (But no federal executions have been carried out during Trump’s second reign of terror. Yet.)

There’s no federal (or state) statute of limitations for capital offenses. But there’s a five-year statute of limitations for non-capital federal crimes, meaning that charges must generally be filed within five years of the offenses. With the long-awaited complete departure of the Trump regime in January 2029, that should make all crimes committed during his second reign of terror litigable and punishable. And clever lawyering might even be able to prosecute crimes committed during Trump’s first reign of terror.

Unfortunately, Trump is certain to issue preemptive pardons for all his lackeys during his last days in office. It remains to be seen if he’ll pardon himself just in case—or if he does, whether the Supreme Court will go along with it.

We also wonder what a new administration will do with all the architectural and other self-glorifying monuments and narcissistic travesties Trump will have perpetrated before he finally gets his just desserts. Among other things needing remediation, to be sure . . .