🇺🇸 Half a century after federal officials first accused Trump and his father of breaking laws that barred racial discrimination in apartment rentals, the former president has finally been indicted 🔎 Analysis by michael2day
The charges against Trump will be kept under seal until the defendant’s first appearance in court. So the exact nature of the charges is not yet known.
Bragg can argue, however, that Trump’s lawyer-turned whistleblower Michael Cohen, who is said to have facilitated the payment to Daniels on Trump’s behalf, has done jail time – for crimes that include a campaign finance violation related to $130,000 payment to her shortly before election day 2016. So why not Trump himself?
Trump might get a bounce from the hush-payments indictment – especially if the case falls apart. But you could argue he doesn’t need to “fire up” his base. They’d probably vote for him, no matter what. Trump might be somewhat unbalanced – check out his recent speech at the CPAC conference in Maryland, if you harbour any doubts about that – but he isn’t entirely stupid. He’ll probably be aware of how any calls to arms following this first indictment against him might influence his prospects in the other criminal cases.
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