Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 27, 2023 Attacks on our democracy are rising, led by efforts to suppress voices, voters, and even books. Voices This week, state Democratic Representative Zooey Zephyr, Montana’s first transgender lawmaker, was censured and barred from the House floor for the remainder of the session on the grounds that her words violated […]
“This is just the latest example of lawyers tied to the Trump probes being accused of potential wrongdoing.” Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.), Joshua Stanton, and Siven Watt discuss new developments in the investigation by Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential results, in an analysis […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 20, 2023 After former President Donald Trump, Fox News apparently did more than anyone else to promote and spread the false claim and accompanying lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. In doing so, Fox made a dangerous contribution to undermining the confidence of millions of Americans in the […]
Jordan’s incursion into the functioning of the Manhattan DA’s office is “egregious and unconstitutional overreach.” Twenty-one individuals, including four Republican former Members of Congress; Cyrus Vance Jr., the former Manhattan District Attorney; and former prosecutors, government attorneys, and other legal experts today filed an amicus brief supporting Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Jr.’s motion for injunctive relief to […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 13, 2023 A dangerous anti-democracy movement is rapidly growing in the ranks of Republican officeholders and activists. It was unleashed when former President Donald Trump refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power after he lost the 2020 presidential election – a first by a U.S. President. Instead, […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 6, 2023 Our democracy is under attack and seriously threatened. These attacks crystallized in 2020 when then-President Donald Trump attempted to steal the election he had lost, the first attempted presidential coup in our nation’s history, and the lead role he played in unleashing the January 6 insurrectionist attack […]
The Indictment The full 34-count felony indictment: The People of the State of New York against Donald J. Trump The Statement of Facts, prepared by the Manhattan DA’s office The Indictment, Annotated By The New York Times Research & Analysis Hush Money And High Stakes: 11 Key Facts On Trump’s Legal […]
As the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has pointed out, the 34-count indictment of former President Donald Trump that was made public yesterday wasn’t just that Trump illegally directed hush money payments “but that the timing of them probably changed the course of his campaign and paved the way for Trump to interfere with election results […]
With the release of the indictment of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg yesterday, “we can now say that there’s nothing novel or weak about this case,” Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former Manhattan chief assistant district attorney, and Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.) write in The New York Times. “The charge of creating false financial […]
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on 34 felony counts by the Manhattan District Attorney. The former President has pleaded not guilty. Former President Trump has been charged with falsifying business records in the first degree, in violation of New York State law, after allegedly illegally doctoring his official accounting books and records to conceal […]
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