Tag: Indictment
There’s One More Unnamed Accomplice in the Trump Indictment
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August 3, 2023
Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson makes a notable cameo in the 45-page document.
Senator Ron Johnson speaks during a Senate hearing on the proposed PGA Tour-LIV Golf partnership, Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
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Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s felony indictment of Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election makes specific reference to six known co-conspirators who aided the defeated former president’s lawless scheming to retain
Former AG Barr Says Trump ‘Knew Well’ He Lost Election, Believes Indictment Is Fair
In order to secure a conviction, Smith will have to demonstrate that Trump understood he had lost the election.
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Legal experts slam Jack Smith for bringing ‘lousy’ case against Trump: ‘Disinformation indictment’
Legal experts are criticizing special counsel Jack Smith for his latest indictment against Donald Trump for accusing the former president of spreading disinformation and other activities protected by the First Amendment.
Trump was indicted out of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation related to 2020 election interference and the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, and is facing charges such as conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
“The most jarring thing about this indictment is it basically just accuses him of disinformation
The Real Weaponization of the DOJ
In January, one of the first acts of the new Republican House majority was to establish a special subcommittee devoted to rooting out the ways the FBI and other federal bodies have supposedly been used as tools of political persecution.
“We have a duty to get into these agencies and look at how they have been weaponized to go against the very people they’re supposed to represent,” said Representative Jim Jordan, the Trump ally who chairs the body. Even less
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 Lawyer Says Jack Smith Is Endangering American Legal System With Latest Indictment
A lawyer representing former President Donald Trump told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro that Justice Department special investigator Jack Smith was putting the American justice system in jeopardy after he brought another indictment against Trump.
In an interview with Trump’s attorney Jesse Binnall on the Wednesday episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Binnall and Shapiro discussed the latest indictment against Trump over his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“They’re playing a super dangerous game
Why Did Trump’s January 6 Indictment Take So Long?
How Trump’s 2024 GOP rivals responded to his third indictment
Vivek Ramaswamy repeated his promise to pardon Trump and said Jan. 6 was the result of censorship: “Donald Trump isn’t the cause of what happened on Jan 6. The real cause was systematic & pervasive censorship of citizens in the year leading up to it.”
Ron DeSantis, who has also said he would pardon Trump of any federal crimes, leaned into the idea that any Washington jury was inherently unjust: “Washington, DC is a ‘swamp’ and it is unfair
The Latest Trump Indictment Is the One That Really Counts
Republicans react to ‘shameful’ indictment of Trump: ‘Outrageous abuse of power’
FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on Tuesday called the latest indictment of former President Trump an “outrageous abuse of power” and dismissed it as an attempt by the Biden administration to distract from testimony from earlier in the week about President Biden’s son Hunter.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York told Fox News Digital Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment against Trump marks “yet another dark day in America as Joe Biden continues to weaponize his corrupt Department of