Twice Impeached. Twice Indicted
Twice impeached and now twice indicted.
Donald Trump was charged by the Justice Department on Thursday in connection with special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into classified documents stored at Mar–a-Lago. Trump is the first former president to face federal criminal charges.
The seven-count indictment was filed in Federal District Court in Miami, and comes less than three months after Trump was charged in Manhattan following a five-year probe into hush money payments made to adult fil
I appreciate the dispassionate 30,000 ft overview. Helps put it into perspective without all the cable news handwringing and outrage
It’s the only viable way to cover the situation at this point. Or at least for me it is. I say plenty about the unfortunate state of American democracy and the decline of civil society in my longer missives and in the monthly letters. I don’t need to litigate it in Trump “updates.” From a purely practical perspective, I have to strike a balance between covering what needs to be covered and differentiating the site from mainstream media outlets. Readers need to know I’m always paying attention, of course (I can’t just not cover a Trump indictment), but at the same time, the site has to be differentiated. My front page can’t just look like every other front page. With stories like this one, FT, Bloomberg and WSJ are basically forced to compete with NYT, WaPo, Politico and so on, which I think is a really difficult situation. Sure, they can do it, but there’s only so much blanket Trump coverage people can read, and it’s not obvious why, if that’s what you wanted, you’d go to FT or BBG to get it.
Yeah, a Republican juror from Florida might favor Trump. On the other hand, he/she might see it as an opportunity to tilt the primary to a local boy named DeSantis.