.HayesBrown: The three weeks since his federal indictment have not brought much in the way of good news for the former president
This won’t be a very relaxing summer for former President Donald Trump. These months before the presidential primaries begin are often a grueling time for a candidate, but he has the extra layer of stress that comes from having been. Namely, several developments in the three weeks since his arraignment threaten to ratchet up the stakes of his legal jeopardy even further.
Special counsel Jack Smith hasn’t been resting on his laurels since he dropped 37 federal charges on Trump. Smith is also probing Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and his reported attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. That effort appears to be homing in on two areas in particular: the effort to haveand the fundraising effort that raked in boatloads of cash in the weeks after the election.
Special counsel Jack Smith hasn’t been resting on his laurels since he dropped 37 federal charges on Trump.part of a convoluted scheme cooked up among some of Trump’s worst advisers. Step one: Slates of electors in states that Trump claimed to have won would try to submit their own Electoral College votes to Congress. This would give Vice President Mike Pence a pretense to claim that the multiple set of ballots required either tossing out the “contested” states’ votes — giving Trump the win over Joe Biden outright — or sending them back to those states.
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