Responding for the first time to the federal charges, Donald Trump commented: “This is the persecution of the person that's leading by very, very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot. So if you can't beat `em, you persecute `em or you prosecute 'em. We can't let this happen in America.”
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On August 1, Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury for conspiracy against democracy. This is the third indictment against Donald Trump, following those stemming from the Stormy Daniels affair in New York and the classified documents affair in Florida.
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Here we go again, as we find ourselves on the cusp of a third arrest for the former President of the United States.
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That's what Donald Trump himself believes, after revealing...
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...he received notification that he was officially targeted in the investigation into the events surrounding the Capitol assault on January 6, 2021.
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The former president announced the news on his own social network.
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On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters...
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...stormed the Capitol in Washington...
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...after a speech by the ex-president in which he called on his supporters to march down to the Capitol to show the elected officials inside who were to certify the election result (and thus the new president Joe Biden)...
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...that the people had chosen Trump instead, creating a riot outside and inside the building, an assault that left people dead and many others wounded and later described as an insurrection.
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The former president was previously charged in the Stormy Daniels case, as well as in the case of classified documents found by the FBI at his Mar-A-Lago residence.
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The trouble with the law is just beginning for the 2024 presidential candidate, it seems.