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Opinion | This Indictment of Trump Does Something Ingenious
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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For anyone curious but not reading the article, a large part of the "something ingenious" seems to be RICO charges.
It does sound exciting, maybe this will have been worth the wait. I'm not even American, but I don't think it's overstating things to say that the fate of the world is (at present) pretty tied into the fate of American democracy. Even the indirect ripple effects from something like this are huge
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The one thing to note is that, with something like 20 defendants, it's going to be pretty slow getting to trial.