I love seeing politicians piss in their pants as much as the next guy. Hopefully the charges aren't politically motivated, but if they are that's where I think things get dicey. The law being applied more strongly and more rigorously if you are a political enemy is both difficult to prove and insidious, and it undermines the democratic process. I have no idea if this is the case with trump, or the prosecution is just a coincidence.

You see this applied elsewhere... for instance police may target black areas. Sure the black people they arrest may actually be committing crime and the arrests may be valid, while still achieving an insidious quality of policing.