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The Mind-Bending World of Trump, His Indictments, and the 2024 Election
It has been six days since the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump on felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and it’s already getting hard to keep up with the latest developments. On Monday morning, Trump, in a post on his social-media site, accused the special counsel Jack Smith of trying to deny his First Amendment rights by asking that the court order the former President not to disclose evidence prosecutors have gathered.
Here’s What’s Wrong with Prosecuting Trump for ‘Stop the Steal’
Trump’s indictment for conspiracy to defraud the government is missing a fraud on the government — among its other flaws.
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Trump’s Subdued Courtroom Appearance | The New Yorker
On Thursday afternoon, the third arraignment of former President Donald Trump took place in the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, in Washington, D.C. This is the same courthouse in which the former Trump 2016 campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was arraigned in 2017, the former Trump associate Roger Stone was arraigned in 2019, and the former Trump aide Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress in 2022. It’s also the same courthouse in which dozens of people have
A Former Federal Prosecutor Explains the Latest Trump Indictment
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The charges, brought by Jack Smith, a special counsel for the Department of Justice, specifically accuse Trump of conspiring to obstruct a government proceeding, defraud the United States, and deprive people of their right to have their votes counted. (A fourth count also pertains to the obstruction of a government proceeding.) To talk about the indictment, I spoke by phone with Mary McCord,
Many Senior Republicans Are Still Reluctant to Break With Trump
As Donald Trump arrives in Washington, D.C., to be arraigned on criminal charges arising from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he has already scored a significant political victory. The indictment—Trump’s third—was handed down on Tuesday, charging the former President with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, as well as conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the right to vote. Since then, much of the Republican leadership, some of Trump’s rivals in the G.O.P. primary, and
Trump, Pence Trade Barbs after Jan. 6 Special Counsel Indictment
Prosecutors say Trump urged then-Vice President Pence to help him overturn the election during at least four calls in late 2020 and early 2021.
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Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself
The events that culminated in the rollout of the Justice Department’s most recent indictment of Donald Trump, on Tuesday, had a familiar ring: a barrage of social-media broadsides and gratuitous insults from the putative defendant, and hours of breathless cable-TV vamping about news that had not yet happened. (“A micro-development, but that’s all we have right now, Jake,” the CNN senior legal correspondent, Paula Reid, told the anchor Jake Tapper at one point.) In the early afternoon, reporters who had
Public Opinion About Trump’s Criminality Is Shifting—a Bit
In just three weeks, the first televised G.O.P. Presidential debate will mark the start of the 2024 campaign proper, plunging American politics further into uncharted waters. “It is most likely that, by the time we get on the debate stage on August 23rd, the front-runner will be out on bail in four different jurisdictions—Florida, Washington, Georgia, and New York,” Chris Christie, one of Donald Trump’s rivals in the Republican Presidential primary, remarked on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Cleaning Up After the Bolsonaristas in Brasília
On the afternoon of Sunday, January 8th, exactly a week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist popularly known as Lula, to his third term as the President of Brazil, a march held by supporters of his predecessor, the right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, reached its terminus at the National Congress of Brazil, in Brasília. The protesters, many of whom were dressed in the colors of the Brazilian flag, were united by the conspiratorial claim that the
What the Conviction of Stewart Rhodes Means for Right-Wing Militancy
For years, Stewart Rhodes used a faded leather briefcase to hold his keepsake photos and papers. He left it with his wife and children in Montana when he moved to Texas in early 2020, the year of COVID lockdowns, social unrest, and election lies that would lead Rhodes, the longtime head of the militant, right-wing Oath Keepers, to his conviction for seditious conspiracy last week. In October, as his trial began in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., I visited