{"id":1996508,"date":"2023-08-10T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taking-aim-at-the-first-amendment\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:37:25","slug":"taking-aim-at-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taking-aim-at-the-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeting the First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaking-aim-at-the-first-amendment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 AUGUST 01: Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump on August 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. Trump was indicted on four felony counts for his alleged\u200c efforts to overturn the 2020 election.\u200d (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/kenin-m-spivak\">Kenin M. Spivak<\/a><br \/>August\u2062 10, 2023<\/p>\n<p><em>(Views expressed by guest commentators may not reflect\u2064 the \u2063views of OAN or its affiliates.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Last week\u2019s federal indictment of Donald Trump is a watershed moment in \u200dthe politicization and weaponization\u200c of the Department of Justice.<\/h2>\n<p>The DOJ is doing that which it accuses President Trump of doing\u2014attempting to change the election and deprive Americans of their right to vote by advancing extreme legal theories. Against the free passes the Obama-Biden DOJ gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/scammer-in-chief\/\">Biden family<\/a>, Hilary \u200dClinton, Lois Lerner, thousands of rioters after George Floyd\u2019s death, and protestors at\u200d the\u200b homes of Supreme Court justices, the rupture is complete. This is \u2064not the America for which millions of our citizens fought a war \u200dof independence, the Civil War,\u2063 and two world wars.<\/p>\n<p>As unprecedented as this indictment might\u2063 be \u2064in its attempt to criminalize political speech, at its core\u2062 it is a \u200dcontinuation of \u2064the Biden \u200cadministration\u2019s\u2063 massive whole-of-government effort to suppress views with\u200b which it disagrees (see <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/ending-free-speech\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/09\/biden-administration-engaged-in-a-massive-censorship-campaign\/\">here<\/a>). The DOJ tested the waters for criminalizing free speech by \u2064investigating parents who spoke\u2063 out at school board meetings. This indictment is the nadir of the slippery slope down which the administration has descended. Rather than merely demonetize or deplatform dissenting views, the indictment seeks to interfere in the 2024 election and imprison \u2063the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>No administration \u2062has come close to \u200bthis outrage since 1807, when, on flimsy evidence, President Thomas Jefferson unsuccessfully prosecuted his\u200d own former vice president, Aaron Burr, \u200cfor conspiring to seize the Louisiana Purchase and\u2062 parts of Texas. By contrast, when Trump became President\u200c he rejected calls to prosecute Hillary\u2064 Clinton, \u200bdespite \u200dhis supporters\u2019 chants to \u201clock her up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The indictment\u2062 should not be evaluated for whether it accurately recounts\u200c what Trump said, no matter how \u200bdistasteful that may be for many, or whether he\u2063 created circumstances that led to the events at the\u2063 Capitol on January 6,\u2062 no matter how loathsome that may be for most. Rather, the indictment must be evaluated\u2064 for its cynical, hypocritical, and \u200cdangerous attack on the First Amendment, and for weaponizing\u200b the DOJ against President Biden\u2019s political rival. It was\u200d timed so that a trial\u200c might occur in the run up to the 2024 election, and was announced the day after Devon Archer\u2019s testimony exposed Joe Biden\u2019s lies to knock that testimony from the news \u200dcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment is a \u2062whiny, indignant recitation of Trump tweets and statements that annoy\u200d special counsel Jack Smith and the Left. Even Smith admits, \u201cthe Defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative\u200c fraud\u2063 during the \u2062election \u2064and that he had won.\u201d He further acknowledges that Trump \u200dalso was \u201centitled to formally challenge the results \u2062of the election,\u201d though he limits Trump to actions that are both \u201clawful,\u201d and in\u2064 the view \u2062of the DOJ, \u201cappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For most\u2062 of its 45 pages,\u2062 the indictment\u2019s rationale\u200b is little different from \u200dthe arguments the Government recently advanced in its opposition to plaintiffs\u2019 successful request for an\u200c injunction in <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/ending-free-speech\/\"><em>Missouri v Biden<\/em><\/a>, which sought \u200bto stop the administration from pressuring social media companies to suppress \u2064protected\u200c free speech. \u200dIn that action,\u2062 now on appeal to the\u200d Fifth Circuit, the Government claimed\u2062 it had the right and duty to suppress falsehoods, and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/topics\/election-security\/foreign-influence-operations-and-disinformation\">malinformation<\/a>,\u201d which the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity &#038; Infrastructure Security Agency defines as \u201cbased on fact, but used out of context to mislead,\u200b harm, or manipulate.\u201d In other words, facts that aren\u2019t swaddled in leftist \u201ccontext\u201d\u200d must be subject\u200d to government \u2064control.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the indictment accuses the President of tweeting or asserting falsehoods, as\u200b judged by sources Smith finds credible, or of adopting novel legal theories advanced by renowned lawyers with whom Smith disagrees, for the\u200b purpose of influencing the\u200d vice president, DOJ, and elected officials to proceed as Trump advocated. The indictment reveals Smith\u2019s bias by mischaracterizing two Trump\u2019s \u2063tweets that are irrelevant to the\u2064 alleged crimes. The first called for the rioters to \u201cStay peaceful!\u201d and the other for them to\u2064 \u201cremain peaceful.\u201d The indictment\u200c alleges that Trump was \u201cfalsely suggest[ing] that the crowd at the Capitol was being peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Supreme Court explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/319\/624\/\"><em>West Virgina State Board\u2063 of Education v. Barnette<\/em><\/a> (1943), protecting political speech is part of the \u201cfixed star in our constitutional constellation.\u201d The First Amendment even protects false political speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/11-210#writing-11-210_OPINION_3\"><em>United States v. Alvarez<\/em><\/a> (2012), and advocating the commission of a crime or violence to advance political goals, unless the speech is a \u2063direct incitement \u2063to imminent lawless action, <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/395\/444\/\"><em>Brandenburg v. Ohio<\/em><\/a>(1969). The indictment fails to allege\u200b why Trump\u2019s \u2063speech goes beyond the protections of the First Amendment, or why it constitutes a crime.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-2\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-2'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleges \u200dthat Trump engaged in a conspiracy for the purpose of \u201coverturn[ing] the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, \u2062counted, and certified.\u201d\u00a0\u200c Trump allegedly \u201cspread lies that . . . he had actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant \u2064knew that they were false. But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway\u2014to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The indictment also \u2064alleges that the legal theories developed by\u200d Trump\u2019s lawyers John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Rudy Guliani, and Sidney Powell, and by DOJ \u200cofficial Jeffrey Clark,\u200b were wrong and that it is a criminal offense for lawyers to advance untested or novel theories; that because numerous Trump advisors\u2063 and supporters told Trump that the fraud he alleged had not \u2064occurred, Trump was required to believe them and not\u200b those who disagreed, or rely on his own analysis of the situation; and that because Trump repeatedly tweeted, lobbied the vice president, members of Congress, and DOJ officials to accept his view of the facts and his lawyers\u2019 view of the law, Trump overstepped his free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment seeks to criminalize the right of lawyers to provide frank legal advice, free speech,\u200c and other activities never intended to be covered by the statutes it\u2064 cites by accusing Trump of four crimes: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct \u200ban official proceeding; obstruction of, and attempt to \u2064obstruct, an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. These allegations are an\u2064 invitation for Trump to re-litigate his\u2062 election fraud theories.<\/p>\n<p>The first count under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/371\">18 \u200bU.S. Code\u2062 \u00a7 371<\/a> fails because the Supreme\u200b Court has consistently limited the crime of fraud on the United States to financial crimes. See for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/483\/350\/\"><em>McNally <\/em>v. <em>United States<\/em><\/a> (1987), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-1170_b97d.pdf\"><em>Ciminelli\u00a0v. United \u2062States<\/em><\/a> (2002)\u2064 and <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/598\/21-1158\/\"><em>Percoco v. United States<\/em><\/a> (2003).<\/p>\n<p>The statute on which the indictment\u200c relies for\u200b its second and third counts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1512\">18 U.S. Code \u00a7 1512<\/a>, is meant to criminalize witness\u200d intimidation, not puffery or bluster intended to persuade\u2014or even browbeat\u2014vice presidents, DOJ officials, or members of Congress. Even if Section 1512 applied to Trump\u2019s swagger, the government must prove that Trump acted with \u201ccorrupt\u201d intent. To do so, most legal \u2063experts agree the government must prove that Trump knew he was lying,\u200c though \u200csome circuits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/18\/18-6363\/67130\/20181017145927042_00000002.pdf\">accept<\/a> other means of proving corrupt intent. It is unlikely\u2063 that the\u200d Supreme Court, which has rejected efforts \u2064to broaden similar statutes, would allow the\u200d government to establish guilt \u200bwithout \u2064proving consciousness of\u2064 wrongdoing. In 2018, the Court <a href=\"https:\/\/cite.case.law\/s-ct\/139\/578\/12623386\/\">declined<\/a> to grant certiorari\u2064 to resolve this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The last count is\u2064 based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/241\">18 U.S. Code \u00a7 241<\/a>, which \u2064was passed after the Civil War\u2064 to stop \u200cthe Ku Klux Klan from intimidating freed slaves from voting. Though the Supreme Court sustained a conviction for ballot stuffing in <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/417\/211\/#228\"><em>Anderson v. United States<\/em><\/a> (1974), most legal experts see that case as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/08\/the-civil-rights-theory-of-indicting-trump-for-election-interference\/\">outlier<\/a>. It is unlikely the Court \u200dwould sustain a conviction that does not\u2064 include\u2063 violence or the threat of violence, or that is based on filing lawsuits and petitioning the most powerful elected officials\u2063 in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Further, because Trump\u2019s actions occurred while\u2062 he was \u200bpresident and \u2064pertained to the electoral \u2062process, he may have immunity. In <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/457\/731\/\"><em>Nixon v. Fitzgerald<\/em><\/a>(1982), the Supreme Court held that President Richard Nixon was entitled to \u201cabsolute immunity from damages liability predicated on his official acts.\u201d Nixon was a civil case, but\u2062 the analysis may apply here, as well.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleges two acts, as contrasted to mere speech:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The creation of fraudulent elector\u2064 slates in seven contested\u200d states. The indictment acknowledges that the vice president and Congress refused to consider the alternative slates. Though \u200cfederal fraud statutes do not \u200bgenerally require that an official act in reliance on the fraud, they do require \u2064that there actually be a fraud, <em>viz.,<\/em> that the official does not know the truth. It is \u200dimprobable that any relevant U.S. official was confused by the\u200c charade. Though this allegation appears weak, it is the only material allegation in the indictment that\u2063 goes beyond the effort to criminalize political speech, and it might be \u200dprovable. But, as has been true for 215 years and most recently for so many potential prosecutions of Democrat \u2063politicians, prosecutorial discretion \u2062should have been exercised to decline prosecution of this farce.<\/li>\n<li>Trump verified a court\u2063 filing after he was made aware that \u201csome\u201d of the allegations\u2064 and evidence\u200d proffered by experts in the filing were inaccurate. It is unclear if the verification certified\u2063 the accuracy \u200bof the\u200b experts\u2019 contributions, or only that \u200cthe contributions came from the experts. Regardless, verifications of incorrect information in civil actions are common, seldom prosecuted, and when prosecuted, are usually misdemeanors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h3>The unprecedented sweep of Smith\u2019s theories\u200c is emphasized by an abbreviated list of those to whom it would apply if carried out in a non-partisan judicial proceeding observing\u2064 the same degree of scrupulousness as\u200b Smith demands:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jack Smith, whose aggressive prosecution of Virgina\u2019s Republican governor Bob McDonnell based on an unprecedented re-definition of federal bribery statutes was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/united-states-government-895740bda46c4596951c5937ced1eded\">overturned<\/a> unanimously by the Supreme Court in 2016. Smith\u2019s extreme, false legal theories destroyed McDonnell\u2019s \u2063political career and deprived Virginians of the right to vote for him.<\/li>\n<li>The FBI created the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/fbi-admits-they-knew-hunter-biden-laptop-was-real\">misimpression<\/a> that the Hunter Biden laptop it seized in 2019 had not been vetted, and in a coordinated disinformation campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/new-testimony-reveals-secretary-blinken-and-biden-campaign-behind-infamous\">organized\u200c by Biden campaign advisors<\/a>, 51 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taking-aim-at-the-first-amendment\/\" title=\"Targeting the First Amendment\">high ranking intelligence officials referred<\/a> to the laptop as having \u2063\u201cthe classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d Collaborating \u200cwith, \u2064and coercing, social media, they blocked\u200c distribution of the <em>New York Post<\/em>\u2019s reporting about the laptop until after the 2018 election. Polls show \u200cthat\u200c truthful coverage of the laptop story before the election \u200clikely would have changed the outcome (see <a href=\"https:\/\/tippinsights.com\/info-on-hunter-biden-laptop-could-have-swung-the-election\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/26\/2020-election-outcome-would-differ-with-hunter-biden-laptop-coverage-poll\/\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The Hillary Clinton campaign and its law firm Perkins \u2064Coie devised a plan to manufacture a false dossier\u200c that painted Trump\u200b as \u200da Russian\u2062 asset, elected through\u200c unlawful \u200dRussian interference\u2064 in \u200bthe\u2064 2016 election. Working with\u2064 like-minded\u200c journalists, Democrat leaders, and senior FBI agents and attorneys, the campaign obstructed official functions, and created an intense national atmosphere of mistrust\u2064 and anger that eroded public faith in the\u2062 administration of the election.<\/li>\n<li>Since her loss in the 2016 election, Hilary Clinton and other Democrat leaders have repeatedly \u200basserted that \u2063she was the rightful winner. Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1513217806711590920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1513217806711590920%7Ctwgr%5E5d57ab29388ec437d11afaf3f42c0ca12e9f48fb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fkatiepavlich%2F2022%2F06%2F13%2Fflashback-when-democrats-attacked-democracy-n2608636\">said<\/a>, \u201cyou can run the best campaign, \u200dyou \u200dcan even become the nominee, and\u200b you can have the election stolen from you.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>House Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/sep\/21\/lee-zeldin\/house-democrats-have-objected-presidential-electio\/\">objected<\/a> to certification of Republican electors when Republicans \u2063won the presidency in 2001, 2005, and 2017. Democrat Congressman Bennie Thompson, who lead the January\u2062 6 Committee, voted against certification of the 2004 presidential election and <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2022\/06\/13\/flashback-when-democrats-attacked-democracy-n2608636\">refused<\/a> to attend President Trump\u2019s inauguration, claiming Trump was not a \u201clegitimate\u201d \u2062president.\u200d Democrat Congressman Jamie\u2063 Raskin, who is also a leading figure on the committee,\u2063 did the same\u2062 and voted against the\u200c certification of\u200c the 2016 \u200bpresidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly claimed Trump is an illegitimate president.<\/li>\n<li>In 2000, Al Gore asserted novel legal theories\u200b to challenge the presidential election\u200d in Florida. Concurrently, the Florida supreme\u200d court ignored applicable law to favor Gore\u2019s candidacy. But for the U.S. Supreme\u2063 Court, voters would have been deprived \u200dof their votes for George Bush.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Biden administration, DOJ, and the Left are committed to \u200csuppressing political speech and canceling those, particularly Donald Trump, \u200dwho pose a threat to the \u200dglobal order they champion. Starting with\u200d the First Amendment, the Bill of Rights is the foundation of our freedom, \u2062including the almost unbridled right of free speech and the right to petition government for redress. The right to counsel is embedded in the Sixth Amendment\u200d and its\u2063 sanctity has been part of our \u200bsystem from \u200dthe start.<\/p>\n<p>This indictment,\u2063 and\u200c the Biden administration\u2019s massive social \u200cmedia censorship effort are part of the same malignancy that is destroying free \u2062speech, and the rights of people of all political perspectives to advocate their positions without fear of retribution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kenin M. Spivak is founder \u200cand chairman of SMI Group LLC, an international consulting firm and investment bank. He is the author of fiction and non-fiction books and has \u200cserved as a director and C-suite\u2064 officer of public and private companies. Spivak has written for National\u2064 Review, the National Association of Scholars, \u200dand Huffington Post. He was \u200cchairman of the Editorial Board of the Knowledge Exchange\u200c Business Encyclopedia, and a long-time director of the RAND Corporation Center for Corporate Ethics and \u2063Governance. He received his A.B., M.B.A., \u2063and J.D. \u2063from Columbia University.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Landon Starbuck<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with \u200cBob Bianchi<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Joe Allen<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Dr. Jeff Barke<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>BENGALURU (Reuters) \u2013 South Korea\u2019s Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday it plans to launch more \u200delectric vehicles under the Hyundai and\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) \u2013 German technology group\u200d Robert Bosch said on Tuesday that it will establish a joint venture with TSMC, Infineon and\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>TAIPEI (Reuters) \u2013 Taiwan Semiconductor \u2062Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said on Tuesday that\u200d its board had \u200capproved a 3.5 billion euro ($3.8 billion)\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) \u200b\u2013 Meta Platforms is asking a court in Norway to stop a fine the Nordic country\u2019s \u200ddata\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel Jack Smith announces indictment of former President Donald Trump on four felony counts for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. 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