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3 Takeaways from the Trump Indictment

3 Takeaways from the Trump Indictment

Special Counsel Jack Smith's taut, 37-count legal filing is astonishing in every way imaginable. He's admonished us to read it. He's more right than he knows.

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John L. Micek
Jun 11, 2023
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On the one hand, the news that former President Donald Trump had been indicted over the classified documents that he (allegedly) tucked away like some crazed hoarder at his Mar-a-Lago estate was the least surprising thing to happen to a former president whose legal travails are now galactic in their scope.

We’d known for a couple of d…

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