“What if that went to trial and he was convicted?” I asked. “Should he still be electable?”
“What’s the law say?” he said.
“Don’t do that,” I said. “That’s what the law says.”
“Accountability is accountability. But they’re throwing so much stuff at this guy, and it’s almost like I’m rooting for him,” he told me. “This is a whole system of government going after one man who, probably, I bet, right now, 85 million people want to be president.”
“But accountability is accountability,” I said.
“Accountability is accountability,” he said.
“Whether it’s Hunter Biden or Donald Trump,” I said.
“But do I trust the system?” he said. “I don’t.”
“You’re a veteran,” I told him. “You are somebody who doesn’t trust the system that in the broadest sense you served.”
“I have no trust,” he said.
“The system you served,” I said again.
“That’s right. I swore an oath,” he said. “I believed in that oath.”
“When did you stop believing?” I asked Ted Johnson.
“About when Trump became president,” he answered.
— Michael Kruse,
"‘Our System Needs to Be Broken, and He Is the Man to Do It’"
