Was this trial politically motivated? Yes.
Was LaPierre guilty? Yes.
The two things don't have to be exclusive.
Fortunately, the judge saw through James' motion to disband the NRA as the First Amendment violation and abuse of power that it was and denied it. Once that was out of the way, prosecuting a charity committing financial abuse was well within James' authority.
The best tool that law enforcement has is informants. People who are friends with and like a miscreant are not going to inform law enforcement. Most law enforcement looks upon most informants as biased and dirty. I used information from informants realizing that they had malicious motive for informing, seldom was it done as an act of good citizenship (there were exceptions). The only thing that concerned me about informants was whether they were truthful and maybe they were trying to divert our limited resources away from themselves.
In this case Ms. James has certainly acted with malice and has directed law enforcement against an entity she clearly doesn't like even if they were completely legal and above board. She clearly ignores wrongdoing by entities she approves of.
All that being true, she is absolutely right about the malfeasance of the NRA, its CEO, and his cronies. Like her or not she was right on this and WLP left the organization wide open on this. Now the members should be able to go after the BOD with a civil action for their acquiescence or maybe even active participation in the stealing.
