4 September—This startling headline from breakingnews@nytimes.com: “N.Y.P.D. Fatally Shoots Man With Knife on Brooklyn Bridge.” Wow! Evidently New York’s celebrated/notorious fuzz have a new gun that can shoot knives.

On the subject of Wow!, then, you’re probably surprised—make that amazed—that Christian Castro, the ICE goon who shot but didn’t manage to kill a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis back in January and has since been defended and protected by Donald Trump’s complaisant, corrupt flunkies and cronies, was just allowed by Trump’s taxpayer-financed personal shyster firm—a.k.a. the Department of Justice—to be indicted on six lesser counts by a federal grand jury.

Well, don’t be. Surprised or amazed. Because for starters the allegedly unexpected indictment—which at this writing is still sealed per normal practice—is allegedly only for making false statements, rather than for the more serious crimes that Castro allegedly committed, like violating victims’ rights under color of law.

To be sure, making false statements to the feds—commonly known as lying—is a federal felony, in theory punishable by substantial fines and time up the river. But we’ve seen that it’s not prosecuted nor even taken seriously by governments of all complexions at all levels, including but not limited to Trump’s blatantly corrupt one. And if Castro doesn’t make or hasn’t made a prearranged plea deal that effectively lets him off the hook for everything, you can be sure the criminal case won’t be prosecuted competently or seriously. And don’t forget Trump’s corrupt pardons.

Nor should you forget that Matthew Evans, the Assistant U.S. Attorney who had been investigating Castro, was fired yesterday, the same day the ICE goon’s bullshit indictment was announced. Evans was allegedly canned for obstruction of a grand jury probe because he strenuously had objected to Castro’s reduced charges as pressed by Trump’s ass-kissing xenophobic shysters. It’s only to be expected that Evans is now under investigation by the scumbags for doing the right thing.

It’s common knowledge that Trump, Trumpublicans, MAGA morons, and other undesirables are running scared—with more than a little justification—about the upcoming congressional election, although Democrats aren’t doing much to help themselves regain majorities. So it’s not unlikely that the Castro indictment is in reality nothing but a feint, a deceptive ploy to draw attention from all the real crap Trump and his corrupt confederates are committing in his second reign of terror while deluding the gullible unwashed into believing they’re finally doing the right thing . . .