Lenience on tap for anti-Trump tax leaker

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Those articles largely advanced Democratic calls for further investigations into Trump and the need to raise taxes on the wealthy.
39% : Echoing those on the left who hail Littlejohn as a "whistleblower" and a "hero," his defense's lawyers are now appealing to another Democrat judge in D.C. to give their client a pass because he acted out of "deep, moral belief" to expose Trump whom he viewed as "dangerous and a threat to democracy."
38% : In the 2020 election cycle, federal records show Booz Allen contributed a total of $238,776 to Joe Biden versus $85,657 to Trump.
38% : In 2022, it had to notify its employees that their personal information -- including Social Security numbers and dates of birth -- were exposed in a breach of its internal network.
37% : "On Sept. 27, 2020 - five weeks before the election - the Times published data from 15 years of Trump's tax records in a more than 10,000-word story headlined, "Long-concealed records show Trump's chronic losses and years of tax avoidance."
35% : It's not just because convicting, imprisoning, torturing and destroying the lives of hundreds of Trump supporters is meant to terrify and intimidate millions of Americans into submission.
34% : He also leaked charitable donations, investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and losses, as well as the results of IRS audits - all with the hope that journalists would expose "salacious details" about Trump and other wealthy taxpayers, many of them Trump donors, according to the new court filings.
31% : The paper's reporting had long pushed the false notion that Trump had financial ties to the Kremlin.
29% : Former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn, who stole and helped publicize the confidential tax records of Donald Trump and an estimated 7,500 other wealthy Americans, could face little or no jail time when he's sentenced later this month, because the DOJ allowed him to plead guilty to a single felony count.
29% : "At a minimum, the Missouri Republican argues, Littlejohn, a Democrat donor who sought to damage Trump soon after his 2016 election, should have been charged with two "separate and distinct" unauthorized disclosures - one of Trump's returns to the Times in 2019 and the separate tranche of thousands of returns he delivered to ProPublica in 2020.
27% : And it's not just because activist judges and bureaucrats in over 30 states are absurdly trying to keep Trump off their state's election ballots by citing the 14th Amendment's prohibition against anyone who "engaged in insurrection" from holding elective office.
20% : Against the backdrop of prosecutions of Donald Trump in an election year and the collapse of Hunter Biden's earlier no-jail plea deal, which a Delaware judge rejected because it was "not straightforward" and contained "atypical provisions," Littlejohn's plea agreement is raising new questions about the politicization of justice.
16% : An Obama-appointed judge in D.C. sympathized with Clinesmith, a liberal Democrat who, internal FBI messages revealed, hated Trump.
14% : "Smith said the case only adds "more fuel to the fire" to growing perceptions of a two-tiered system of justice in Washington where criminals who seek to damage Trump get off easy, while those who break the law supporting Trump - such as trespassing on restricted government grounds - get the book thrown at them.

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