Is Today's Trumpist GOP Fascist?

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Why a third indictment of Trump could be such a profound stain on his legacy

Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday that any potential indictment relating to election interference ought to be viewed as a particularly historic stain. “It should concern him more because it will be a legacy-defining decision far greater than the Mar-a-Lago offenses,” Cobb said. “This is one of the great constitutional insults of our time. The country owes it to itself to reassert the rule of law and demonstrate that at least the vision of America is something we are willing to protect and hopefully deter (future threats to that vision) through punishment of Trump if he is convicted.”

Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, a renowned conservative legal scholar, reacted to signs Smith may indict Trump over his attempts to invalidate the 2020 election by saying any other attorney general or special counsel would do the same.

“The former president has left Jack Smith no choice but to bring charges, lest the former president make a mockery of the Constitution of the United States and the Rule of Law,” Luttig said in a statement.

And Jeffrey Sloman, a former US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, summed up the national challenge posed by Trump’s existing indictments in the heat of an election this way: “These are momentous times, the fact that the former president is the defendant in a federal case is quite unusual … these are unprecedented times.”

The Trump & GOP argument that these indictments are political is indeed disingenuous. But by giving Trump a pass from litigation say until after the election will be practically Trump a pass for his criminal activities to get elected, in effect electing a criminal in the eyes of a majority of Americans to the WH.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/polit...sis/index.html