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2024 Front-Runners Play Legal Jeopardy
Winner gets the White House — loser could end up in jail.
T BY MICHAEL DORSTEWITZ
he 2024 presidential race has become an ugly legal showdown — with the two top candidates accused of
crimes that could put one or the other behind bars. A Washington, D.C., federal grand
jury launched the latest legal broadside — against Donald Trump on Aug. 1, a four-count felony indictment for try- ing to overturn the 2020 election. It’s the third criminal case fi led
against the former president by Demo- crat prosecutors: In New York he faces
34 felony counts over hush money pay- ments to a porn star. In Florida he faces 40 felony counts for hiding classifi ed documents at Mar-a-Lago. “We need one more indictment to
close out this election,” Trump joked at a rally in Alabama the day after he was arraigned in a Washington, D.C., court on the latest charges. “One more indictment and this
election is closed out. Nobody has even a chance.” He may get his wish — a local pros-
ecutor in Georgia is readying charges Trump interfered in that state’s 2020 election count. With latest polls showing Trump
in a commanding lead for the Repub- lican nomination and inching ahead of President Joe Biden in a November
matchup, political analyst Dick Mor- ris quipped on Newsmax TV: “Trump is trying to lock up the election, and Biden is trying to lock up Trump.” Trump, meanwhile, has made it
clear that if he wins the 2024 election, he will go after Biden for engaging in corrupt practices while vice president with his son Hunter. Trump told the same Alabama
rally: “From the fi rst day in offi ce, I will appoint a special prosecutor to study each and every of the many claims being brought forth by Con- gress concerning all of the crooked acts, including bribes from China and many other foreign countries that go into the coff ers of the Biden crime family. “It is a crime family. He is a corrupt,
‘Overzealous’ Trump Prosecutor Destroyed Governor’s Career G
eorge Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley
likened the Washington indictment of Donald Trump to the case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, in which Special Counsel Jack Smith was
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overturned by a unanimous Supreme Court. Smith is the special counsel in the cases against Trump.
Smith’s prosecutorial history demonstrates that he’s very “partisan,” especially in high-profile cases targeting
Republicans, and he “exercised bad judgment” with “overzealousness about charging.”
McDonnell, along with his wife, was charged with improperly accepting gifts and loans from a campaign donor.
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