.KatiePhang does not hold back with her red pen in this annotated version of the latest Trump indictment.
an attack on the First Amendment or the former president's right to free speech and to share his opinion about whether the 2020 election was stolen from him. This indictment also isa cautionary tale of woe about a man who simply heeded the advice of his lawyers only to be left holding the bag in the end like some unsuspecting patsy.a detailed account of a scheme to defraud the American people, to steal their votes, and to cheat them out of their lawfully elected president, Joe Biden.
The indictment alleges a clear timeline: Trump’s pressure campaign first on state officials and other legislative figures, many of whom remarkably were Republican. When that didn’t work, he moved on to targeting specific states to implement fake slates of electors to fraudulently cast votes for Trump. All the while, Trump threatened leadership at his own Department of Justice to attempt to cow them into submission.
Trump’s plans culminated on Jan. 6, 2021, a violent day that has spawned more than 1,000 arrests and now this indictment. Maybe the plan from the beginning wasn’t to use violence to achieve Trump’s goals, but along the way, the idea of doing so seems to have swiftly and disturbingly become acceptable. And prosecutors made clear they believe Trump encouraged and incited his supporters to invoke violence as a solution.
This indictment begins with Smith setting the stage with a brief description of where the alleged crimes took place and the main players, including Trump’s alleged co-conspirators. But after that brief scene setter, Smith opens the floodgates:
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