Trump’s Asking for Contempt Charges

AsDonald Trump’s legal saga continues, with multiple state and federal indictments, and more charges almost certainly on the way in <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rico-case-georgia-expert-says/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Georgia</a>, the former president is fighting back the only way he knows how: spewing lies and slandering his pursuers. He’s claiming the prosecutions are part of an elaborate witch hunt concocted by the Biden administration to destroy him politically, and he’s attacking the prosecutors, judges, and witnesses involved in his numerous criminal cases in his typically unrestrained style. He’s deliberately raising the national temperature, and putting these people at grave risk, as demonstrated by the long and deadly history of violence and political terror undertaken by <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/09/fbi-shoots-utah-man-wanted-biden-threats/70561371007/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">his supporters</a>. That threat isn’t theoretical. It’s painfully obvious, given that Trump instigated lethal political violence to keep himself in power on January 6, and part of his well-established pattern of using inflammatory speech as both a weapon and a shield. As <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/11/donald-trump-indictment-threat-jan-6/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Colbert I. King</a> wrote in the Washington Post today, “We’ve been here before. The country ignores such threats at its peril.” Indeed, shortly after his third arraignment on federal election charges, only a single day after Trump was warned by federal magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya not to intimidate or tamper with witnesses, he posted this on Truth Social: <a href="https://medium.com/discourse/trumps-asking-for-contempt-charges-cd9e0832388">Read More</a>