“With this indictment, we have entered a new act” in the Donald Trump saga, David Remnick writes, “one in which Trump contemplates turning a potential perp walk into a campaign opportunity.”
Former President Donald Trump, twice impeached, yet impervious to shame, was indicted Thursday on criminal charges related to the payment of hush money to a porn star. There was a time in American history, almost impossible to recollect now, when such a sentence, such a plot point, would have been beyond our imagining. That has not been the case for a very long time.
assigned Evan Osnos, who had reported on the reactionary forces and militias supporting Trump, to do a long, speculative article on the unthinkable. The piece, headlined “,” was at once a serious inquiry, full of interviews with wise heads in both political parties, and an editorial stunt. It ran along with a photomontage of Trump standing in the Oval Office and staring serenely out high windows at the winter landscape.
With this indictment, we have entered a new act in the saga, one in which Trump contemplates turning a potential perp walk into a campaign opportunity. Who else could envision fingerprints, a mugshot, and cuffs as tools in an effort to “consolidate the base”? We haven’t been given access to the New York indictment––those papers remain sealed––but it is quite likely that potential criminal charges stemming from Trump’s role in theand election-law tampering in Georgia will be more straightforward and compelling. Some legal experts have said that the New York case is weaker, more complicated, than the others. We shall see.
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