“5 things to watch for if Trump is indicted again”
Aaron Blake’s in WaPo on a potential federal indictment for Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Category Archives: election subversion risk
“Jan. 6 Rioter Who Beat Officer With Flagpole Gets Four-Year Sentence”
NYT: “The attack by the driver, Peter Stager, produced one of the most disturbing images to emerge from the Capitol attack. Mr. Stager, 44, of Conway, Ark., was captured on video beating the officer, Blake Miller, with the flagpole… Continue reading
“Special counsel scrutinizing February 2020 meeting where Trump praised US election security protections”
CNN:
Special counsel Jack Smith’s office has asked former US officials about a February 2020 Oval Office meeting where then-President Donald Trump praised improvements to the security of US elections, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
In… Continue reading
“Even as third indictment looms, many Republicans still stand by Trump”
A not-very-surprising WaPo story from Iowa: “Even with the backdrop of Trump facing another potential indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, many GOP voters wrote off the former president’s legal challenges as part of a continued liberal… Continue reading
“As Inquiries Compound, Justice System Pours Resources Into Scrutinizing Trump”
NYT on the resources being devoted to investigating the former president, including around $25 million that the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith is on track to spend this year: “These efforts, taken as a whole, do not appear to… Continue reading
“GOP Splits Over Jan. 6 Deepen as Trump Indictment Looms”
WSJ: “The former president and many of his allies have played down the riot and boosted support for those who stormed the Capitol. A smaller wing of the party has strongly criticized Trump and the rioters. In between… Continue reading
“Unpacking the ‘Surprise’ Crime in DOJ’s Target Letter to Trump”
Norman Eisen, Ryan Goodman, and Joshua Kolb in Just Security:
On Tuesday the world learned that the Department of Justice had served Donald Trump with a target letter for crimes related to January 6th. On Wednesday, reporting by The … Continue reading
“Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims”
WaPo: “Mark Meadows joked about the baseless claim that large numbers of votes were fraudulently cast in the names of dead people in the days before the then-White House chief of staff participated in a phone call in which… Continue reading
“The numbers behind Trump’s confidence the Jan. 6 indictment won’t matter”
Politico dives into GOP opinion on January 6:
The most common sentiment from Republican voters about Jan. 6, 2021, isn’t that it was an assault on democracy or that Donald Trump is the true winner of the 2020 election.
It’s… Continue reading
Trump’s 2024 Campaign/Trial Calendar
WaPo has this story with a nifty graphic on how next year is shaping up for the former and aspiring president — and all of us — with four criminal or civil cases already scheduled and more in the works.… Continue reading
“Election Denial in California”
From Politico’s California Playbook:
Beneath the thick top layer of the state’s Democratic control is a passionate base of conservative voters that even the Republican Party sometimes has to rein in. Pandemic rage, Donald Trump’s loss in his reelection… Continue reading
“Trump prosecutions consume campaign funds and messaging as charges mount”
WaPo on the vanishing distinction between Trump’s campaign and legal defense: “[J]ust over half of the money [Trump] raised last quarter went not to the campaign itself but to an affiliated PAC that is footing the legal bills. Of more… Continue reading
“A Collision in Court: Trump Grand Jury Proceedings Delay a Jan. 6 Verdict”
NYT: “On Thursday, … a federal judge hauled the prosecutor leading the election interference investigation out of a grand jury proceeding and summoned him into his courtroom. The judge, Trevor N. McFadden, was apparently upset that the prosecutor, Thomas… Continue reading
“Michigan clerk stripped of election duties after being charged for acting as fake elector in 2020”
AP:
On Thursday, the Michigan Bureau of Elections notified Stan Grot, a Republican who has served as the Shelby Township clerk since 2012, that he will be prohibited from administering elections while the charges are pending.
Grot was among… Continue reading