On December 3, 2019, senator Kamala Harris announced that she was dropping out of the presidential race, conceding that she no longer had a viable path to the White House. The response of Donald Trump, the sitting president and the Republican nominee for reelection, was, as usual, brutal and sarcastic. “Too bad. We will miss you, Kamala,” tweeted Trump. Harris, however, had the last word. “Don’t worry, Mr President,” she replied. “I’ll see you at your trial.” Her barb turned out to be prophetic as Trump was arraigned as a defendant in a Manhattan courthouse on April 4.
The last US president before Trump to suffer the ignominy of getting arrested was civil war hero Ulysses S. Grant—for racing his horse-drawn carriage on a busy street in Washington, DC, back in 1872. He was taken to a police station, fined $20 and released. The policeman who arrested Grant was an Afro-American civil war veteran, William H. West. Today, Trump is being prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, the Afro-American district attorney of Manhattan. But unlike Grant, Trump may find it hard to get away easily.
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