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Another Trump Indictment. What Else is New?
Did I read every page of the 45-page indictment when it was posted yesterday around 5 P.M? No, I didn’t read every page. I read every page three times. And the reason I read it three times was because I didn’t believe that Trump’s attorney defended his client on CNN by saying that all Trump was doing was exercising his ‘right’ to ‘free speech.’
Ready? Here is the first sentence of the indictment’s third paragraph, right at the top of Page 2: “The defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been an outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won.”
So, what we have is an attorney creating a defense for his client based on what the indictment specifically says has nothing to do with the charges against the client at all.
But that’s not Trump’s biggest problem. Actually, he’s got two big problems with this indictment. Problem number one is that all those unindicted co-conspirators are unindicted because they’ve flipped. That’s not good.
But what’s worse is that Trump getting indicted is starting to become old news.
Remember the first indictment in New York? When Trump went to court to be charged you would have thought that it was like the U.S. 3rd Army marching down the…