When running for office…there are many more.
So, yeah, you are right, we got two standards of justice. Harvey Weinstein. Jeffrey Epstein. Being a rich old white man has allowed you to evade accountability in Manhattan. That includes Trump and his children…
Harvey Weinstein Appealed had a mistrial declared. He will be being retried for his crimes. Jeffrey Epstein died in the jail. How did these rich old men "evade accountability in Manhattan". Weinstein is in jail in California, and will be brought back to New York and retried.
Trump has been evading accountability in Manhattan because he runs a closely held private corporation, and nobody has ever filed charges against him. Without "probable cause", the DA's can't get a search warrant to go on a fishing expedition looking to see if the company is being run honestly, just because the owner is publically bragging about how much money he personally made going bankrupt and stiffing the banks. There has to be a real evidence of wrong doing to ask for a search warrant.
The prosecution of Michael Cohen provided that "probable cause" and all manner of criminal activity was exposed. Furthermore, at the same time, the State was able to access Trump's tax records going back decades, which proved the frauds and scams he's been running all of his working life.
The Court Appointed oversight officer for the Trump Corporation Fraud case has filed a damning report on the slipshod manner in which the company deals with moving funds to Trump's personal accounts, federal reporting requirements, and filing deadlines.
While Trump's lenders were quick to point out that, from time to time, they had concerns about the value of Trump's assets which he had pledged as security, but when given margin calls, Trump always made the capital injections requested, to bring those security margins into line.
As a former banker, I wouldn't lend to a guy like him either. If you're lending someone money, and trusting that he will deal with you honestly and repay you as per the Agreement, honesty and character matter. If I can't trust you to tell me the truth, I don't care what your balance sheet looks like, the answer is a hard "No", unless you give me liquid security for the full amount of the loan.