“Show me the man and I’ll find the crime.” That comment is attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of the Soviet secret police. Meaning that regardless of guilt or innocence, political enemies of the state can be targeted to stop opposition. Justice is not the goal. Trump wants to turn us into a banana republic where the ability to prosecute people becomes a political tool in the hands of the president. That means he wants to exercise the ultimate power to put down any opposition to his rule.