Is this the end
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Sealed indictments pending
Is this the end
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Sealed indictments pending
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Trump indicted by grand jury on 2020 election interference: live updates
Dan Mangan
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Fmr. President Trump says he expects to be indicted by special counsel soon
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump w[/COLOR]as criminally charged Tuesday in connection with his efforts to reverse his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.
The charges mark the unprecedented third criminal indictment against the former president since he launched his latest bid for the 2024 Republican nomination. No other U.S. president, current or former, has ever faced criminal charges.
The election probe was led by special counsel Jack Smith, who also oversaw a separate investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents at his resort home Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House in 2021. Trump, in June, was charged with 37 counts related to his alleged efforts to conceal those records from the government. He received additional charges in the case last week, stemming from an alleged effort to delete surveillance footage from the Palm Beach club.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in that case, which is set to go to trial in May.
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Absolutely in any decent democracy he would have disbarred of course retardation is common the flyover states due to holy rollers junk food and lack of education in a violent zoo where its easier to get fentanyl and guns than affordable healthcare, a failed state with armed morons, gangster politicians plus form for first use of nuclear weapons.
In case you're having trouble reading the red version....
You just know he's going to stoke up more violence rather than go to prison quietly and die there like the scumbag should.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was indicted on felony charges Tuesday for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol, with the Justice Department moving to hold him accountable for an unprecedented effort to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
The four-count indictment, the third criminal case against Trump, provided deeper insight into a dark chapter in American history that has already been the subject of exhaustive federal investigations and captivating public hearings. It chronicles a months-long campaign of lies about the election results and says that, even when those falsehoods culminated in a chaotic insurrection at the Capitol, Trump sought to exploit that violence by trying to further delay the counting of votes that sealed his defeat.
Even in a year of rapid-succession legal reckonings for Trump, Tuesday’s criminal case, with charges including conspiring to defraud the United States government that he once led, was especially stunning in its allegations that a former president assaulted the “bedrock function” of democracy. It’s the first time the defeated president is being held to account for his frantic but ultimately failed effort to cling to power, culminating in the Capitol attack.
Trump indicted over efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss | AP News
Trump's 2024 GOP rivals weigh in on former president's January 6 probe indictment | Fox News
One of the first to release a statement was former CIA spy and former Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, a long-shot for the nomination and a very vocal GOP Trump critic.
"Let me be crystal clear: Trump's presidential bid is driven by an attempt to stay out of prison and scam his supporters into footing his legal bills. Furthermore, his denial of the 2020 election results and actions on Jan. 6 show he's unfit for office," Hurd wrote.
It was a very different reaction from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who's a distant second to Trump in the latest GOP presidential nomination polls but ahead of the rest of the large field of Republican contenders.
"As President, I will end the weaponization of government, replace the FBI Director, and ensure a single standard of justice for all Americans," DeSantis stated.
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, another vocal Trump critic who's challenging the former president for the nomination, called this "another sad day for America with a former President being charged criminally for obstructing the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next."
Vivek Ramaswamy, another rival for the nomination, charged in his statement that "the corrupt federal police just won’t stop until they’ve achieved their mission: eliminate Trump. This is un-American & I commit to pardoning Trump for this indictment."
The Trump campaign, in a statement to Fox News, accused the Biden administration and the Justice Department of "election interference" and charged that "the lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes."
And the Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc. argued that the former president "is undeterred and his unprecedented America First movement will carry him back to the White House, where he will dismantle the Deep State and bring the Biden Crime Family to justice."
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
We will be hearing Trump whining for at least 5 years.
Fair chance Rudy is in there too....
There are six unnamed co-conspirators in the indictment.
Fitch who gave great ratings to dodgy banks has downgraded US debt, methinks our generation have witnessed peak American hegemony.
Most Americans have not read Pericles Thucidydes, von Ranke,Montaigne, Motley's Dutch Republic and most prescient Gibbons but all erections flop.
We can see the consistent pattern from Xerxes to Tamerlaine, Hannibal to Hiitler, Greece, Rome, The Moghuls, FranceSpain , Habsburg Hohenzollern and the Brutish Umpire all peaked as will the violent republic based on butchering natives Bison Brits,Spanish then allcomers.
Tragically the gunmen seem to prefer progressive politicians , schookids, churchgoers or Mall rats.
A US expert on cbs said there would be no bar to a convicted Trump being re elected, Taksin there is hope
He can run - and amazingly even serve - while in prison.
Can You Run for President From Prison? Yes, It's Been Done Twice
And some more Michigan Republitards better start stocking up on lube.
Why the fuck is spamdreth spamming this thread. Hasn't the OCD twat got enough threads to spam already?
It seems Rudy is the favourite to be Co-conspirator Number One.
AG Garland's only comment on the matter:
“Immediately after the Jan. 6 attack on our democracy, the men and women of the Justice Department engaged in what had become the largest investigation in our history,” Mr. Garland said.
He reiterated that in November 2022 he had appointed Mr. Smith as special counsel “to take on the ongoing investigation in order to underline the department’s commitment to accountability and independence.”
“Mr. Smith and his team of experienced, principled career agents and prosecutors have followed the facts and the law wherever they lead,” said Mr. Garland.
“Any questions about this matter will have to be answered by the filings made in the courtroom.”
AG Garland Makes Statement on Trump Jan. 6 Indictment | NTD
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