The third indictment of Donald Trump is the first to get to the heart of the matter: Can a sitting leader of the country spread lies to hold on to power even after voters reject him? Trump's case has broad implications for U.S. democracy:
President of the United States from 1789 to 1797WASHINGTON — In the long annals of the republic, the White House has seen its share of perfidy and scandal, presidents who cheated on their wives and cheated the taxpayers, who abused their power and abused the public trust.
But if long delayed, the indictment wove together all the intrigue between the Nov. 3, 2020, election and the Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration into a damning tale of a president who pushed in seemingly every possible way stop the handover of the White House to the challenger who beat him. Bringing the case to court, of course, may not restore that public faith in the system. Millions of Trump’s supporters and many Republican leaders have embraced his narrative of victimization, dismissing the prosecution without waiting to read the indictment as merely part of a far-reaching, multi-jurisdictional and sometimes even bipartisan “witch hunt” against him.
In a court of law, however, the challenge for Trump will be different, especially with a jury selected from residents of Washington, a predominantly Democratic city where he won just 5% of the vote in 2020. Trump’s strategy may be to try to delay a trial until after the 2024 election and hope that he wins so that he can short-circuit the prosecution or even try to pardon himself.
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