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The New Trump Indictment and the Reckoning Ahead

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The New Trump Indictment and the Reckoning Ahead

To read the stark criminal indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, charging Donald Trump with conspiring to steal the 2020 Presidential election is to realize more deeply than before that the country is headed for a great reckoning—in the courts and at the ballot box. It suggests a question that cannot be escaped: Will the American electorate show itself capable of overlooking a conspiracy to undermine democratic rule and return the chief conspirator to power?The third and latest indictment against Trump sets out four charges and makes the case against him in the plainest terms. “Despite having lost, the defendant was determined to remain in power,” the introduction to the forty-five-page document reads—and where have you seen a more succinct summary of criminal intent?Or...

Special Counsel Interviews 2020 Election Security Official Fired By Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith has interviewed a government cybersecurity official in charge of voting system security who was fired by Donald Trump after casting doubt on the former president’s 2020 election lies.Chris Krebs on Tuesday told CNN he spoke with Smith’s team in early May, but didn’t elaborate.The questioning of Krebs in the Justice Department’s wide-ranging probe into Trump’s efforts to undo his 2020 election defeat adds to the anticipation of a potential third Trump indictment. Trump last week said he received a target letter from Smith suggesting he’ll be charged.Krebs was terminated by Trump in November 2020, days after the agency he headed issued a statement calling the election “the most secure in American history.” Krebs also operated a website debunking election conspirac...

How Prosecutors Might Charge Trump for January 6th

Last week, former President Trump received a “target letter” from Jack Smith, a special counsel for the Justice Department, indicating that Trump will likely be criminally charged in connection with at least some aspects of his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. On Thursday, the Times reported that the letter mentioned three criminal statutes: conspiracy to defraud the government, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. The last of these is a Reconstruction-era civil-rights law; specifically, it forbids people from conspiring “to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person . . . in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”I recently spoke by phon...