Fox News host Jesse Watters, who took over Tucker Carlson’s coveted primetime slot, opened his show by lashing out at special counsel Jack Smith, who he said “looked like a bedraggled nervous wreck, dripping with anger and highly emotional.”
In sum, the four new counts allege that Trump knew he had lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden but pursued a “criminal scheme” to overturn the results — an effort that culminated in the attack on the Capitol to try to stop Congress from certifying the vote.
Trump’s supporters claim that even those lies pass constitutional muster. “If you take a red pen to all of the material presumptively protected by the First Amendment, you can reduce much of the indictment to haiku,”Read more on Yahoo News:Trump in a Manhattan courtroom with members of his legal team for an arraignment in April on charges stemming from his indictment following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s defenders paint the prosecutors’ actions as part of a sweeping effort to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign.Read more on Yahoo News:Hunter Biden departs a federal courthouse in Delaware on July 26 after a plea hearing on two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes.
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