I'm not sure if you're intentionally being selective here, but I'll assume good intent. GP goes on to say: > There's clearly an element of selective prosecuti

I'm not sure if you're intentionally being selective here, but I'll assume good intent. GP goes on to say: > There's clearly an element of selective prosecution here, regardless of whether the charge is valid. To make a martyr of Trump over small time crimes is not going to be good for the country in the end. Their point is quite specifically _not_ whataboutism. They use another example to point to what they believe to be selective prosecution, not to ask "why not proscute the others who did this?".