The latest Trump indictment is part of a process that could steer the United States back toward the rule of law.
The alternative is stark: If Trump -- or Trumpism -- regains the presidency and Congress, democracy will not survive.
This should be obvious now to every journalist, even the most weak-kneed, both-sides normalizers of extremists. And it's long past time for Big Journalism to act accordingly.
Yet when you look at the coverage, you see that business as usual prevails.
Judge Aileen Cannon, known for agreeing to Trump’s request by assigning a special master to review the entirety of federal government documents the FBI retrieved from Mar-a-Lago last summer during the execution of a search and seizure warrant will, at least for now, oversee the government’s case allegedly charging Donald Trump with seven different felony categories in its classified documents probe, according to ABC News.
https://www.alternet.org/Frontpage-feature/aileen-cannon-2661174241/
A federal judge whose highly-controversial rulings favoring Donald Trump were derided by legal experts and judges on a higher court, has been initially assigned to the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s criminal case against the ex-president, who appointed her to the bench three years ago.Judge Aileen Cannon, ...
The networks and their cable affiliates should NOT be giving a mic to people who repeatedly lie about Trump.
From the Birdsite, David Rothkopf on MSNBC platforming a Trump apologist. Robert Ray wrote the Whitewater report. He was part of Trump’s legal team before the impeachment trial.
https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1667241178951983111?s=46&t=P6Dj5eZQ3WC5LhY9qqf1xQ
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.
they gave trump every chance to avoid this.
he has given them all the evidence they need.
even with a maga jury and judge.
yes they can ignore the evidence.
Sourcing your copy-paste first graph: Frank Wilhoit, “a 63-year-old classical music composer in Ohio” wrote this as a comment on Crooked Timber.
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
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Channeling a NYT values-free demon here,
"Trump's detractors point at multiple statements by the former President that they claim are inaccurate.
They also claim that actions by Trump around multiple issues should have his fitness to occupy the White House in the future questioned. Multiple legal actions against Trump remain undecided by the SCOTUS and some 75% of Republics respond to a survey question by affirming that the 2020 federal election was indeed stolen from tfg.
#USPol
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