It’s Not Just Trump
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Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, indicted Donald Trump and 18 others on an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in her state. The accused co-conspirators are a reminder that people like Trump are enabled by minor figures who may be as much a menace to democracy as Trump himself.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
- The agony of Mike Pence
- Why people won’t stop moving to the Sun Belt
- Don’t let Donald Trump take his case to federal court.
The Brass Ring, Pulled Away
Former President Donald Trump now faces his fourth round of felony indictments, this time in Georgia, where prosecutors allege in a racketeering charge that he led an effort to overturn the will of the state’s voters in the 2020 election. Not much more can be said man, beset by feral insecurities, whose actions have, in the words of the retired federal judge J. , “corroded and corrupted American democracy.” So let’s leave him aside and turn to his accused co-conspirators in Georgia (at least five of whom appear to be mentioned in accusing Trump of a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election, although Smith has not yet charged them).
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