Pressure to indict Donald Trump for the Capitol riot mounts, but some say it would be a mistake 🔍 Analysis from michael2day
right now? Hunkered down in his office in Pennsylvania Avenue, America’s attorney general is facing the most momentous decision of his career, and possibly the most far-reaching choice of any senior law officer in US history: Should he charge former president Donald Trump for his role in attempted insurrection on 6 January last year?
a damning firsthand account of the situation in the White House in the hours before and during the attack. This testimony will encourage Democrats’ appetite for criminal proceedings against Trump – an appetite already stoked by one poll suggesting that nearly 60 per cent of Americans support such charges.
She added: “And I think that it is worse to do nothing. I think if we had indicted Richard Nixon, it would have created a precedent. But it also would have been a warning that might have stopped the behaviour that Donald Trump is engaged in now. And that’s an important thing, because if – and Heaven forbid this happens – he should be reelected, he will only be more emboldened if he gets away with this.
If Attorney General Garland decides to take the case, he will need to be sure – under his own department’s guidelines – that “the admissible evidence will probably be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction”. Some legal observers are not convinced it is.
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