The New Trump Indictment and 2024

Last week’s indictment of Donald Trump is more than yet a further deepening of Donald Trump’s legal travails. This indictment cuts much closer to the core of Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine American democracy than any of his previous indictments. This time, the primary issue is not Trump paying hush money and violating campaign finance law, as he is being charged with doing by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, or Trump stealing top secret documents and refusing to turn them over to the authorities, as he is accused of doing by the Department of Justice. The charges Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought against Trump are specifically for his role in the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6^th, 2021.