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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Donald B. Ayer |Philip Lacovara |Dennis Aftergut
WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. The pre-election public record is full of clues—flashing red lights, really—that Donald Trump is preparing to try to steal the vote again if he loses. The Justice Department should be investigating it now. Any legitimate, fact-based court challenges to particular vote counts are not the problem.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Donald B. Ayer
WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. The pre-election public record is full of clues—flashing red lights, really—that Donald Trump is preparing to try to steal the vote again if he loses. The Justice Department should be investigating it now. Any legitimate, fact-based court challenges to particular vote counts are not the problem.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Donald B. Ayer |Dennis Aftergut
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
salon.com | Donald B. Ayer |Dennis Aftergut
Donald Trump’s attacks on the rule of law – the basic notion that we have no kings and no one above the law in America – has made the phrase a common feature in our recent political discourse. Indeed, Kamala Harris embraced it as a "fundamental principle" to be held "sacred" in her acceptance speech at the Democratic convention. In doing so, she called our attention to the one thing that most took for granted until the arrival of Trump and his MAGA movement.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Dennis Aftergut |Donald B. Ayer
The master of branding has just branded himself a criminal Donald Trump’s recent conviction on 34 felony counts hands the master of branding with short vignettes a very heavy dose of his own medicine.
“Convicted felon” packs a mighty punch in our society – at least equal, one would think, to Trump’s all-time winners like “Crooked Hillary,” and “fake news.” And its impact is all the more powerful, one might hope, since it is based here on real facts and not made-up nonsense.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
salon.com | Dennis Aftergut |Donald B. Ayer
Donald Trump’s recent conviction on 34 felony counts hands the master of branding with short vignettes a very heavy dose of his own medicine. “Convicted felon” packs a mighty punch in our society – at least equal, one would think, to Trump’s all-time winners like “Crooked Hillary,” and “fake news.” And its impact is all the more powerful, one might hope, since it is based here on real facts and not made-up nonsense.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Donald B. Ayer |Dennis Aftergut
WITH TODAY’S MANHATTAN JURY VERDICT that Donald Trump is guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal before the 2016 election, Trump is the first former president to become a convicted felon. That is a devastating legacy. The convictions affirm that the rule of law is alive and well, at least in the nation’s largest and most important metropolis.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Donald B. Ayer
There has never been a graver test of America’s rule of law than the prosecutions of Donald Trump. He “stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes,” as Jack Smith put it in a recent court filing. No president has ever schemed for months to retain power after losing an election—and over the repeated advice of his advisers and lawyers—nor taken and concealed classified documents for many months following his return to civilian life.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin |Donald B. Ayer
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023 Monday, September 11, 2023 at 11:00:15a GMT Liz Cheney is no friend of progressives, but her Jan. 6 committee work was outstanding and will outlive her political career. Christian Vanderbrouk/The Bulwark:They Did This to ThemselvesBy supporting the Liz Cheney purge and downplaying January 6th, Ron DeSantis and his conservative supporters dug their own hole. We can stipulate that the team behind Ron DeSantishas done their candidate no favors.
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
msn.com | Donald B. Ayer
Several distinguished individuals have recently expressed grave reservations about the prosecutions of former President Donald Trump. Notably, they appear to have no dispute about the seriousness of his wrongdoing.
