Yes, and Trump was happy to judge before any facts came out (also well before the city settled for $41M), based apparently on (a) what he thought had happened,

Yes, and Trump was happy to judge before any facts came out (also well before the city settled for $41M), based apparently on (a) what he thought had happened, and (b) how he thought the justice system ought to work; most people in the 80s would not have done that. lighter: https://www.theonion.com/trump-takes-out-full-page-newspaper-ad-calling-for-deat-1850299979 https://www.theonion.com/trump-takes-out-full-page-newspaper... darker: http://apps.frontline.org/clinton-trump-keys-to-their-characters/pdf/trump-newspaper.pdf http://apps.frontline.org/clinton-trump-keys-to-their-charac... Note that even in Russia, the death penalty theoretically no longer exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country