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Trump's Indictment is Strong, but Should Never Have Happened

Lawfare gets even more aggressive

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Ben Domenech
Jun 12, 2023
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Eli Lake offers his take.

Reading through the indictment of Donald Trump, one is tempted to ask if the man wanted to be caught. It reads like a bad comic novel. 

The former president is the bumbling protagonist, scheming with an underling to hide boxes of documents from the FBI and his lawyers. Trump boasts to a writer and publisher that he is showing the…

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