As Donald Trump, the first US president ever indicted, faces justice [justice is a big word — call it POLITICAL INJUSTICIAL FAKE CHARGES] in a Manhattan courtroom, he is channelling his inner Aaron Burr, the first vice president to be indicted and brought to trial. Burr was not charged with murdering the revered Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New Jersey, but several years later, in 1807, for conspiracy to commit treason. Although disgraced, Burr was acquitted.
BY Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer