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    What We Know About Trump Indictment and What’s Next. Legal Expert Explains.
    Much remains unknown about the criminal charges being brought against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Cully Stimson says.  “The indictment is sealed, which means it hasn’t been released to the public,” Stimson says. “We don’t know when it will be unsealed. We’ve also seen news reports that there’ll be an…
    Virginia Allen
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    Democrats React to Trump’s Indictment
    Democrats took to Twitter Thursday night to respond to former President Donald Trump’s indictment. A Manhattan grand jury’s decision to indict Trump marks the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges.   The charges against the 45th U.S. president revolve around supposed hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Indictment a Terrible Moment for America
    Throwing a former president in jail is bananas. If that happens, we’ll certainly look a lot more like a banana republic. On Thursday evening, a Manhattan grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on charges related to hush money payments made to pornographic performer Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election. Though the details have yet…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Indictment of Donald Trump: The Players and the Cards They’re Playing
    The widely reported indictment of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, headed by Alvin Bragg, doesn’t come as a surprise.   That lack of surprise, though, isn’t because he’s necessarily guilty of any crimes. Like anyone else accused of a crime, Trump is deemed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond…
    John G. Malcolm | Zack Smith | Hans von Spakovsky
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    McCarthy, GOP Tear Into Manhattan DA Following Trump Indictment
    House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised Thursday evening to hold Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accountable for his role in indicting former President Donald Trump. "Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election," McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement Thursday. "As he routinely frees violent criminals to terrorize the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Manhattan Grand Jury Indicts Trump
    A Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald Trump on Thursday, the first time in U.S. history that a former president has faced criminal charges.   The charges against Trump revolve around supposed hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, led the investigation, and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Reacts to Indictment: ‘THIS IS AN ATTACK ON OUR COUNTRY’
    Former President Donald Trump accused Democrats on Thursday of both political persecution and election interference as he reacted to news that a Manhattan grand jury has indicted him. “This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history," the former president said in a lengthy statement. "From the time I came down…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    DeSantis Vows Florida Won’t Help Extradite Trump
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in a tweet that the Sunshine State will not help extradite former President Donald Trump, who was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury Thursday night. Trump spends significant time at Mar-a-Lago, a Florida resort he owns. “Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Anti-Trump ‘Hush Money’ Case Has More Holes Than His Doral Golf Course
    If filed, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s highly anticipated “hush money” indictment against former President Donald Trump will be unprecedented. No sitting or former president of the United States has ever been indicted. The U.S. House impeached Trump twice—and Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, once each. The Senate failed to convict any of them after their respective House…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Arrest That Man (Donald Trump). Crime to Follow.
    Former President Donald Trump, citing “illegal leaks” from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, posted the following on social media: ” … WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED…
    Larry Elder
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    Americans Have a Lot at Stake If Trump Indicted, Heritage Foundation President Says
    Americans should be concerned about Donald Trump’s potential arrest and indictment regardless of their personal opinions of the former president, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in an interview Tuesday on “The Charlie Kirk Show." “If I encounter someone who isn't as grateful for [Trump] as you and I and your audience are, I say it doesn't matter because…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    More Caught Illegally Crossing Southern Border in 1 Year of Biden Than Entire Trump Presidency
    “Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.” So says the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The same webpage that makes this declaration includes a table that provides some relevant data for the fiscal years from 2017 to 2023. It lists how many individuals on the…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Will Trump Be Arrested? Legal Expert Weighs In
    Former President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he expects to be arrested by New York authorities in the Stormy Daniels case. “WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK,” Trump wrote Saturday morning on his social media platform Truth Social, adding: “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” Trump’s comments come as Manhattan District Attorney…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Says He ‘WILL BE ARRESTED’ Next Week
    Former President Donald Trump predicted Saturday morning that on Tuesday, authorities will arrest him in connection to the Manhattan district attorney's investigation. "NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE…
    Mary Margaret Olohan | Tyler O’Neil
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    Former Trump Adviser Launches PAC Calling on Ron DeSantis to Run for President
    A senior adviser in former President Donald Trump's administration launched a political action committee Thursday calling on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to run for president in the 2024 election. Ken Cuccinelli served as the acting deputy secretary of homeland security in the Trump administration as well as Virginia attorney general and a Virginia…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Energy Department Report on Lab Leak Is ‘I-Told-You-So to Nth Degree,’ Ex-Trump Communications Staffer Says
    OXON HILL, Md.—A former White House communications staffer said the Department of Energy report lending credence to the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab represents an “I-told-you-so to the nth degree” after the legacy media and Big Tech cracked down on then-President Donald Trump and others for suggesting it. “Much…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Pledges to ‘Totally Obliterate the Deep State’: ‘I Am Your Retribution’
    OXON HILL, Md.—Former President Donald Trump spoke about his accomplishments in the White House and his future plans in a speech Saturday to conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, just outside the nation’s capital. “We are going to complete the mission,” Trump said in the closing speech at CPAC. “We are…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Child Abuse’: Trump Presents Plan to Stop ‘Mutilation of Our Youth’ in the Name of Transgender Identity 
    In the buildup to the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump has begun laying out his campaign platform.  On Wednesday, the former president released a video condemning the radical Left’s gender ideology and plans to protect children from experimental transgender surgeries and procedures.   “The left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an…
    Michael Ippolito
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    Anti-Trump ‘Doonesbury’ Cartoon Finally Goes After a Biden—but With Kid Gloves
    Back in early August, fully 18 months into the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden, we noted with curiosity how the liberal newspaper editorial cartoon “Doonesbury” still had not even mentioned Biden, much less ridiculed or lampooned anything about his administration. That was despite the president’s numerous lies and innumerable speaking gaffes, and in spite of…
    Peter Parisi
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    The Real Differences Between Biden and Trump Document Troves
    Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled “classified” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware. Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to popular punditry, hardly favor Biden. First, a stranger would face a far greater challenge entering…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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