Trump has tweeted about the witch hunt going on.

Today Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort has been jailed following new charges of witness tampering. He’ll be held without bail until trial.

Trump has complained that due to the witch hunt many “lives have been destroyed.” Really? The lives of criminals like Manafort who consistently enriched themselves by money laundering, making false statements, filing fraudulent documents, bank fraud, and the list goes on?

It may well be that if Trump had never run for president, Manafort would be happily engaging in all those activities now.

It may also well be that if Trump had never run for president, his fixer Cohen would still be out there practicing law, threatening journalists, and palling around with Russian mobsters.

It may well be that dozens of indictments would not have happened, hadn’t it been for Trump running for president.

At the end of the day, those indictments, that will eventually turn most of the recipients into felons, were valid and justified. We have smoked out an empire of what looks like organized crime activity at the cost of the American public. Trump filed bankruptcy every time the criminal deeds of his fixers and followers were not enough to bail him out. Then the public got to pay.

So Trump wants us to believe these people are innocent. There were no crimes.

I say that these people now wish they had never engaged in business with Trump. Everything he touches eventually crumbles, recently more publicly than before. Everybody that works closely with Trump is getting disgraced at best, and cast off by Trump more often than not.

Let’s just hope our country and democracy are stronger than some of his businesses.

Some witch hunt!