Lawlessness in the Name of Law and Order

The Republi-fascist Response to Trump’s Indictment

Beneath all the paranoid-style right-wing hyperbole, the Manhattan indictment is arguably the least serious and possibly the most prosecution-challenged case hanging over Trump’s head. The orange malignancy is also being investigated by a special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, for his felonious attempted interference in the 2020 presidential election. He seems likely to be indicted there for this crime – for which there is publicly available slam-dunk evidence – this May. 

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Paul Street’s latest book is This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America (London: Routledge, 2022).

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