Good-day humans, welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas and as this election year gets underway in the United States,

here's an uncomfortable question for you.

Is one of the presidential candidates a criminal?

And if he is a criminal, will the courts find him as such and sentence him as such this year?

If not, when could they, when might they?

What exactly is the shape of Donald Trump's legal woes?

Is it all a partisan witch hunt, as he portrays it? Or is there

a there there? Or are some of the cases, ones in which there's a there there and others in which

it probably is a little bit of a witch hunt? I want to untease all this. I want to unpack it.

I want to understand what's going to happen this year and whether Donald Trump will ever go to jail.

What if he loses the election?

Like, then what happens?

Could Joe Biden commute his sentence?

Like, let's actually play out, let's understand what he's being accused of and play out

what might be about to happen because we're in uncharted waters here.

I mean, this is supremely weird to be going

into an election where one of the candidates faces four criminal charges. There's no one better

in the world to understand all this stuff than Ellie Honig. Ellie was a mob prosecutor. He

fought the mafia in New York for years. From 2004 to

2012, he was the assistant United States attorney at the Southern District of New York,

which is that the court in New York, I mean, be part of the justice system that most addresses

itself to the crimes of the mob because they're in

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