The investigator of the House says 2020 election subversion probes will produce indictments

What will we learn from Donald Trump’s return to office? – Political and Legal Problems in the Coming 2024 Presidential Season – Liz Cheney (R.C. Cheney)

The political career of Donald Trump has been unprecedented and his reappearance is posing new questions about the future of our country.

At a time when he and Biden are at odds, Trump dropped his clearest hint yet of a new White House run.

After losing his reelection in 2020, Trump went back into the forefront of US politics with a slew of confrontations. It is likely to deepen the divisions in the nation. Next month’s elections and the early stages of the 2024 presidential race will be disrupted by his characteristic chaos as Trump returns to the spotlight.

Controversies that are coming to a head underscore that the nation and its political and legal systems are still far from dealing with and moving on from the shock and awe fallout of Trump’s turbulent single White House term. Republican Representative Liz Cheney said on Sunday that the committee wants to avoid Trump turning his potential testimony into a circus.

Those controversies show that even if the ex- President’s claims of political persecution is found to be false, there would be more upheaval than his four years in office.

And while fierce differences are emerging between Democrats and Republicans over policy on the economy, abortion, foreign policy and crime in the 2022 midterms – while concerns about democracy often rank lower for voters – there is every chance the coming political period revolves mostly around the ex-President’s past and future.

In a separate probe, the department is investigating whether Trump broke the law by hoarding highly classified information at his Mar-a-Lago resort. If the ex- President and those around him were to be charged, there would be a political conflagration, especially since Trump is already a declared candidate for president.

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In Arizona, one of the ex-President’s favorite candidates, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake – a serial spreader of voter fraud falsehoods – is again raising doubts about the election system. Lake said he was worried that the project might not be completely fair.

The Republican majority in the House could lead to a return of Trumpism, since the ex-president holds the House GOP in high regard. Some leading “Make America Great Again” Republicans are already speaking of a possible drive to impeach Biden and have already signaled they will use their powers to investigate to rough up Biden for a possible clash with Trump in 2024.

After the elections, the Republican presence in Washington is expected to expand. Scores of Trump-endorsed candidates are running on a platform of his 2020 election fraud falsehoods, raising questions over whether they will accept results should they lose their races in just over two weeks.

The Manhattan District Attorney, a Democrat, had not told Trump of his impending charges as of the weekend. According to sources, the final stage of the grand jury process appears to be in its final stages, with Trump’s legal team preparing for the possibility of an indictment.

Democrats have made their own attempts to bring Trump back to the forefront. Some campaigns have tried to scare suburban voters by warning that pro-Trump candidates are a danger to democracy, because President Joe Biden equated MAGA followers with fascists.

But raging inflation and spikes in gasoline prices appear to be a far more potent concern before voters head to the polls, which could spell bad news for the party in power in Washington.

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The ex-President told supporters at a rally in Texas on Saturday regarding the possibility of a new White House bid, “I will probably have to do it again.”

Cheney told “Meet the Press” that it may take multiple days and that it should be done with rigor and seriousness.

He won’t have his first debate against Joe Biden or the food fight that happened. This is a very serious set of issues.

Trump offered a glimpse of how he might use an appearance before the committee to create a political extravaganza after the panel announced it would send out the subpoena. In a 14-page letter, he made several false claims regarding election fraud, and lashed out at the panel itself, branding its members as highly partisan political hacks and crooks who have the sole purpose of destroying the lives of American patriots.

The committee used testimony and depositions in its highly produced presentations and has taken most of them behind closed doors. Only its most sympathetic witnesses have appeared in person. This has helped create a powerful narrative that paints a picture of shocking derelictions of duty by Trump, but it has deprived viewers of being able to see witnesses under cross examination. This has made it difficult to assess whether the committee’s case would stand up to more rigorous evidentiary requirements in a court of law.

It would be difficult for the former President to dictate the terms of the exchanges and how his testimony would be used if it were to be video testimony over a long period of days or hours.

All this could become an academic endeavor. Given the possibility of a Trump legal challenge to the subpoena, the issue could drag on for months and become moot since a possible new Republican House majority would likely sweep the January 6 committee away as one of its first acts.

If there is evidence a crime was committed, Garland would face a dilemma over whether the national interest lay in implementing the law to its full extent or whether the consequences of prosecuting a former commander in chief in a fractious political atmosphere could tear the country apart.

If an ex-president is charged for running for a second White House term they would cause a lot of uproar. But sparing him from accountability if there’s evidence of a crime would send a damaging signal to future presidents with strongman instincts.

The top investigator on the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack said Wednesday that it was likely that Georgia and federal investigations into attempts to subvert the 2020 presidential election would produce indictments.

In Georgia, the foreperson of the Atlanta-based grand jury that investigated former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election told CNN on Tuesday that the panel is recommending multiple indictments and suggested “the big name” may be on the list.

Some of Trump’s closest advisers from his final weeks in the White House gave testimony to the grand jury, which met for seven months in Atlanta.

After the grand jury has concluded, it is up to the Fulton County District Attorney to make charging decisions. In the future, these decisions will have a major impact on the presidential campaign.

“They were present for really significant events. The special counsel will want to hear about the president’s understanding of the election results and also what happened on January 6. The riots at the Capitol preceded direct communications with him by both of them.

A lot of evidence has already been turned over by the House, as well as subpoenaed documents and discovery from attorneys for Trump’s allies, all of which now need to be examined by the special counsel.

“He will not stop because of a family relationship, because of purported executive privilege,” Heaphy said of Smith. “He believes that the law entitles him to all of that information, and he’s determined to get it.”

Trump’s prediction on Saturday that he could be arrested this week – and his attempt to ignite a preemptive backlash – made what had been the theoretical prospect of an ex-president and 2024 candidate being criminally charged appear much more real. It signaled that America is heading for an even more politically divisive incident that will test his influence on the GOP.

The property developer, ex-reality TV star and former commander in chief faces multiple investigations after seeking to overturn the 2020 election and over his handling of classified documents after leaving office. The case over an alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels may be his most immediate exposure.

The case involves whether Trump tried to cover up a $130,000 payment made by his former lawyer Michael Cohen to Daniels to keep quiet of their alleged past relationship before the election. The episode could potentially represent an infringement of campaign finance law. Trump denied having an affair with Daniels and said he did not do anything wrong.

There would be consequences for Trump if he were to be indicted for a mere minor in the Manhattan investigation, said Habba. It is going to be a big deal, Paula. I mean, it’s just a very scary time in our country,” Habba said. But she also said that “no one wants anyone to get hurt” and Trump supporters should be “peaceful.”

— The first Republican nominating contests are nearly a year away, so it’s impossible to judge how GOP primary voters and a national electorate might react to any indictment of the ex-president. Sununu, who has also been considering a presidential run, accused Democrats of building sympathy for Trump with probes like Bragg’s in a way that could “drastically change the paradigm as we go into the ’24 election.” But there has already been a palpable sense among some voters that it is time to move on from the drama, chaos and legal thickets constantly thrown up by Trump’s behavior. The ex-president’s attempt to lift his election-denying supporters into power cost Republicans dearly in swing states in the midterms last year. An indictment would add to the debate over whether Trump’s persona and political appeal is so damaged he could not win a general election.

Trump’s effort to politicize the case and to distract from the allegations against him has already worked as his top allies in Republican House leadership attack Bragg.

Kevin McCarthy characterized it as the weakest case he could think of. The California Republican, who has instructed GOP-led committees to investigate, said at a news conference that he had already spoken to Ohio congressman, who is investigating the weaponization of the government against political opponents.

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The speaker said that the president did not want people protesting over what happened and that they should not do that. McCarthy wants peace out there and no violence against anyone else.

Several of Trump’s Republican critics lined up to join him after he posted on social media. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is considering a campaign to challenge Trump in the next presidential election, said that it feels like a politically charged prosecution. And I, for my part, I just feel like it’s just not what the American people want to see.”

The Bragg investigation was building a lot of sympathy for the former president, according to New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. The man said that he had coffee this morning with a group of people who weren’t big Trump supporters, but they all felt like he was being attacked.

— There is also the issue of whether the political division and trauma of putting Trump on trial would be in the wider national interest — at least in a fairly constrained case that seems to hold fewer lasting constitutional implications than those connected to the January 6 investigations. History could not look kindly on failed prosecutions.

Even as the nation prepares to go to the polls, the Daniels case still dates back at least six years to an election in which the president is seeking a second term. Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on Sunday that “nobody in our nation is or should be above the law.” But he also said: “I would hope that, if they brought charges, that they have a strong case, because this is … unprecedented. And there are certainly risks involved here.”