The forthcoming criminal trials of Donald Trump and his co-conspirator band of crackpot lawyers, White House coup plotters and fake electors deserve to be viewed on television by the American people because exposing and debunking in a courtroom the Big Lie of a stolen election is the single most important corrective action that can be taken to prevent it from happening again.

These will be unique criminal trials in American history. Even though Donald Trump is the named defendant entitled to a presumption of innocence, the real party in the dock is the Rule of Law that was attacked before, during and after January 6 by the defendant and the coup plotters. As the federal RICO indictment makes clear, the real “victim” in these cases is the American electorate.