Séamas O'Reilly: Explaining and clarifying the charges against Donald Trump

"...America’s former president is currently under investigation in at least three criminal cases so bafflingly ridiculous that it is hard to get this fact across without sounding hyperbolic."

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pa. Pic: AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki.

Ever since I was a boy, I’ve loved political scandals. 

In Northern Ireland, they were fairly thick on the ground. You couldn’t throw a rock, or a petrol bomb, without hitting some local councillor who’d done something they didn’t ought to, an MLA or MP who was taking a few quid from somewhere beneath their office.