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The Legal Strategy Behind the Latest Trump Indictment

The Legal Strategy Behind the Latest Trump Indictment

The Daily vor 3 Jahren

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To win a conviction against former President Donald J. Trump for
trying to subvert the results of the 2020 election, Jack Smith,
the special counsel, is applying laws in ways that have never
been used before.

Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent for The Times,
explains Mr. Smith’s approach and previews Mr. Trump’s likely
response.

Guest: Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent for The New
York Times.

Background reading:

By layering varied charges atop the same facts, while
sidestepping a free-speech question, the special counsel has
structured the election indictment to reduce risk.

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