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Two members of Maine’s congressional delegation have stated that, despite the high-profile nature of Donald Trump’s indictment on Thursday, the former president is entitled to a fair trial. Maine Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, said that, like any other case, the burden is on the prosecution. “An indictment by a grand jury is the very beginning of the criminal justice process and does not determine guilt or innocence,” King said. “Under our system, the next steps place a heavy burden on the prosecution — to prove the charges (whatever they may be) beyond a reasonable...

Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who first opened Donald Trump hush-money probe, warns comments by the former president could make jurors view the case more severely. "I was disturbed to hear the former president speak in the way he spoke about the District Attorney Bragg and even the trial court in the past week," Vance said Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press." If he were Trump's attorney, Vance said, he would tell Trump to "be mindful of not committing some other criminal offense," such as obstructing the government. "I think that could take what perhaps we think...

The persecution of Donald Trump continues. It seems no accident that within the same twenty-four-hour window, anti-American prosecutors both confirmed their intent to lock up a president for exposing the Deep State's vise-grip over government power and celebrated the conviction of an American meme-maker who had used his First Amendment rights to mock Hillary Clinton's voters before the 2016 election. Highlighting both events as further proof of the country's two-tiered application of "justice," Tucker Carlson correctly noted that the in-your-face double-standard is precisely the point: leftist authoritarians want Americans to fear their power and meekly submit or respond unwisely and...

Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would not survive. As we await the publication of all the impending indictments of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Americans are trying to figure out what constitutes an indictable offense for current and retired public officials. Most legal experts, Left and Right, have noted: 1) Bragg promised in advance that he would try to find a way to indict Trump. His prior boasts are reminiscent of Stalin’s secret police enforcer Lavrentiy Beria’s quip, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”...

You were probably not alone if the news of Donald Trump’s indictment seemed slightly strange: How could something so big — the first criminal indictment of an American president — seem so small? Mr. Trump was not indicted for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election or for engaging in egregious financial fraud to increase his wealth or even for allegedly obstructing the special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which many once thought was the best avenue prosecutors had to ensnare the former president. Instead, the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, and his team of...

In some ways, it was the turn of events that Democratic voters had dreamed of and some of the party’s lawmakers had long demanded: After years of telling lies, shattering norms, inciting a riot at the Capitol and being impeached twice, Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former president to face criminal charges. But as the gravity of the moment sank in, Democratic voters, party officials and activists across the country absorbed the news of Trump’s extraordinary indictment with a more complex set of reactions. Their feelings ranged from jubilation and vindication to anxieties about the substance of the...

An oral compact has been breached. And Republicans will have Biden & Son arrested soon enough while Hillary may yet pay for her emails.Op-ed Peril awaits America now that the 45th President of the United States has been indicted. When a former American president is targeted by the politically despicable woke, we all face disaster. There are rules in the American game. Most of those rules are set forth explicitly in the U.S. Constitution, its amendments, and two centuries of binding judicial opinions interpreting, adding to, or deleting rules. One might call those rules “America’s Written Law.” And then there...

Beginning on page 411 of the 35th Anniversary Edition of Atlas Shrugged. (from Atlas Shrugged II, Minute 40) Dr. Ferris smiled. . . . . ."We've waited a long time to get something on you. You honest men are such a problem and such a headache. But we knew you'd slip sooner or later - and this is just what we wanted." "You seem to be pleased about it." "Don't I have good reason to be?" "But, after all, I did break one of your laws." "Well, what do you think they're for?" Dr. Ferris did not notice the sudden...

CNN reported that the indictment against former US President Donald Trump contains more than 30 counts of business fraud. The indictment concerns the alleged payment of hush money by Trump to actress...

'Fox News @ Night' panelists John Yoo and Joe Moreno discuss the next steps for former President Donald Trump after he was indicted by a New York grand jury.

CNN Law Enforcement analyst John Miller says orders have gone out from the NYPD for every cop in the city “of every rank” to “show up in uniform tomorrow” following the criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. News broke on Thursday afternoon that Trump has been indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury investigating the circumstances around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. And amid weeks of Trump threats and incitement, Miller called in on Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room to tell anchor Wolf Blitzer about a sobering “teletype” that went out following the indictment:

"hard step into deep tyranny" Lawyer-Talk Show Host Mark Levin Reacts To The Indictment Of President Trump By Manhattan Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg In recent days and weeks I saw stories in the mainstream media downplaying the activities of the grand jury of New York (Manhattan) District Attorney Alvin Bragg. My response to them was not to use them in my news summaries I felt they were not accurate. My suspicion was justified... President Trump with a statement tonight but his Truth Social Media feed tonight linking to reaction from various Republican elected officials and candidates for public office....

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly being indicted on 34 charges, according to a CNN analyst. The Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to indict Trump almost two weeks after Trump publicly said he was going to face indictment. The indictment is in connection to a yearslong investigation into hush money allegedly paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, allegedly sent $130,000 to Daniels so she would not disclose an earlier alleged affair with the president. Cohen claims Trump then reimbursed him. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office investigated whether Trump forged business records to hide the...

To be charged over campaign finance violations, in a locale deemed a bastion of Democratic liberalism, risks turning Donald Trump into a political martyr, says Adrian Ang U-Jin of RSIS. SNIP No one knows for sure how things will unfold. There is no precedent for criminal charges being laid against a former US president and a leading presidential candidate. SNIP After all, Trump’s prosecution may be on flimsy legal grounds. In 2018, federal prosecutors considered but ultimately rejected charging Trump for campaign finance violations, in the belief that there was insufficient evidence against the former president to make charges stick....

The indictment of former President Donald Trump on Thursday by a grand jury in Manhattan is an assault on democracy. There is no evidence of a crime being committed in the Stormy Daniels affair; even if there were, the statute of limitations on the supposed charge has expired, and the state cannot evade it by inventing a federal crime. The indictment is simply an attempt to prevent the leading opposition candidate from contesting the 2024 election. Worse, the indictment was purchased by notorious left-wing billionaire George Soros, who hates Trump and spent $1 million to elect Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...

March 30, 2023On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, WREC radio host Ben Ferguson fills in for Mark Levin. (Mark Levin isn't on tonight but calls in live at the top of the show as he just spent 2 hours interviewing Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago for his Sunday Fox show. Then he left and within an hour he hears on the radio about this indictment.) Donald Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges now that a Manhattan Grand Jury has decided to indict Trump. We’ve turned the corner from talk to action, and we are in an extremely troubling...

President Donald Trump reacted on Thursday to news that the grand jury in Manhattan had voted to indict him as they are investigating the age-old allegations surrounding “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels.He released an official statement shortly following the shocking news, decrying “Election Interference” and slamming the ongoing “Witch-Hunt” that is aimed at destroying the “Make America Great Again movement:”“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the...

On Thursday, a grand jury in Manhattan voted to indict President Donald Trump in the case revolving around alleged “hush money” payments made to Stormy Daniels many years ago, according to multiple reports. Per RSBN, although the allegations have long since been debunked, The New York Times reported that the grand jury still voted to indict the 45th president of the United States.“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history,” Trump wrote in an official statement. “From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in...

This is vengeance pure and simple. We threw a wrench into their carefully crafted works. And destroyed their insidious plans. And so, punishment must be meted out. As we have seen.

A grand jury in New York has indicted former President Donald Trump, according to emerging reports. “A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges,” the New York Times reported on Thursday evening. “The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming...