Though I often write about Trump in the U.S., I generally avoid that subject here because Trump is so profoundly misunderstood and discreditable motives are often imputed to me. I am generally supportive of him despite his infelicities, because I believe the United States was terribly misgoverned in the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama years and in policy terms Trump was a very effective and successful president and will probably be so again. He was also a very congenial business associate and cordial acquaintance and we have long shared, from experience, a dislike of the ability of American prosecutors to abuse the plea-bargain system, to extort and suborn false inculpatory evidence with impunity and grant immunity from perjury charges to “cooperating witnesses,” as they confirm Lord Acton’s famous aphorism that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”............