The former president’s efforts to defend against multiple felony counts by discrediting law enforcement pose a grave challenge to democracy.
Tag: Watergate Affair
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A President Faces Prosecution, and a Democracy Is Tested
For more than two centuries, American presidents were effectively shielded from indictment. But the case against former President Donald J. Trump breaks that taboo and sets a new precedent.
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What Ford’s Pardon of Nixon Means (and Doesn’t Mean) for Trump
A presidential prosecution could help restore national confidence in the judicial system.
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The Mysteries of Mar-a-Lago
What is in those files? Where did they come from? Whose fingerprints are on them? And who shows up on the surveillance tapes from the Trump mansion