I narrate the watershed indictment, the first federal prosecution of a former President of the United States in American history. Every American should read this document to understand and appreciate the gravity of the crimes alleged to have been committed by Donald F. Trump. This is necessary because Trump’s defenders have been distorting the charges. Audio narrations of the indictment are available elsewhere. This one is narrated by an historian.
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This is an addendum to my latest episode, “Trump in Trouble: The Mueller Memo on Michael Cohen, December 7, 2018.” Events are moving more rapidly in the investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign to hijack to the 2016 US Presidential election. Discussion about impeachment is ramping up. “Hijacking History” looks today at the questions of indictment and impeachment of the president. Will either be on the table when the new Congress begins in January 2019?
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While many spin the Special Council’s latest memorandum in the Russian collusion case in order to hide and occlude its meaning, I try here to highlight its potential multiplier effect on the number of charges of obstruction of justice facing the president.
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In the wake of the American Midterm elections in November 2018, “Hijacking History” looks at how the elections are likely to be viewed in the light of history. In order to understand how, we have to see them in the context of the rules of the Constitutional process in America. What to outsiders may have seemed like a mixed verdict on the Trump administrations, looks very different when framed by the structure of America’s political system. Some knowledge of how America’s electoral system is structured give Democrats reason to hope in 2020, based on the outcome of the Midterm elections of 2018.
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