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Don't Underestimate the Cost of Indicting Trump

This changes things, irrevocably

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Ben Domenech
Apr 06, 2023
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It was a bright blue-skied July day in 1861, so the Washington elite decided to have a picnic and take in a battle. They brought sandwiches and opera glasses to admire the scene of Union recruits, who had signed up for ninety-day enlistments, march by in their unblemished uniforms to put the rebels down. But the Confeder…

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