Barbara McQuade examines what Trump’s election and second term mean for misinformation.
Onlookers watch a broadcast of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addressing an election night watch party on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024.
McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and a former U.S. Attorney. Her new book isDonald Trump to the White House, the mourning includes not just an electoral loss, but also the disillusionment that his ugly and deceitful campaign tactics worked on their fellow Americans. In this moment, it is tempting to disengage from politics, and crawl under a blanket.For months, Trump has fed the electorate disinformation to stoke fear and division in society.
Trump is also liberated from any concerns about criminal prosecution for his conduct while in office. The Supreme Court’s July decision, giving a presidentfor official acts, means that Trump will be unencumbered by any special counsel investigations, as he was during his first term. He has promised toin “two seconds.” He will no doubt order his attorney general to dismiss the indictment in the Jan. 6 election interference case, and dismiss the appeal in the government documents case.
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