tzedekh, tzedekh tirdof

Contrition's not a tune Trump's learned to sing;
his cultists like their hero never wrong.
like some exalted ancient Persian king
commanding minstrels when he wants a song.
Probation officer's charged to assess
if monetary fines might bring him 'round.
But Trump's explicit, no one needs to guess:
he'd gladly tear the whole Republic down.
Judge Cannon's on the take; now it's the States
that wield the power to see Justice done.
With feds demuring to adjudicate
New York has shown such cases can be won.
Still, sentencing's an independent stage;
where fines are toothless, put him in a cage!

It's about time

His co-conspirators are serving time,
but he deludes himself he'll walk scot-free.
Our penal system's less about the crime,
than who's got top-tier lawyers, and their fee.
Since Dershowitz won OJ Simpson's case,
some took the lesson: "justice is for chumps".
Exhibits that would damns him, on their face,
might be dismissed for Simpsons, or for Trumps.
Were there an indication he's contrite,
the court might let him off with just a slap.
But MAGAts want a hero always right
who'd never grovel to reduce the rap.
Where cash for "justice" has become the norm
we're over-due for radical reform.

showtime!

"Come see the tyrant!" Echoing MacBeth
New York has staged a spectacle so big,
the hordes that won't break stride for plagues, or Death
appreciate that Trump's thrown in the brig.
Full half a century of unpaid debts,
and specious lawsuits to intimidate
are nothing Gothamites will soon forget.
He took the White House once, but lost his state.
July, we'll learn what all these verdicts meant;
the sentencing's an independent phase.
Abject example of a life misspent,
can't be atoned in dollars, but in days.
Manhattan's really not his kind of town;
it's Florida that loves retired old clowns