Sam Donaldson's still alive?
Had no idea.
As for the substance of the post, if those cases were unserious, they wouldn't have proceeded and Trump wouldn't have been convicted by a jury.
He was convicted 34 times of criminal fraud. Period.
The reason Aileen Canon sat on the documents case is because she knew he would be likely convicted of at least some of the federal charges had the case gone to court.
With all of that being said, prosecuting a former president and a candidate to be the next officeholder was always going to be a divisive issue. For years, I was of the opinion that Gerald Ford got it wrong when he pardoned Richard Nixon. Time and this episode has proven that he was correct.
Biden should have offered a federal pardon, left it at that, and focused on the economy. Instead he got dragged into many of Trump's dramas, with the charge that he was directing schemes against him to subvert his opponent and the will of the American people.