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Jackie Calmes: As a Trump indictment looms, Republicans are throwing the rule of law under the bus

Former President Donald Trump arrives for an event at the Adler Theatre on March 13, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.

A normal political party would have thrown a loser like Donald Trump under the bus by now. The Republicans are choosing to chuck the rule of law instead.

Should the former president become the first to be indicted for a crime, many of us would prefer to see charges stemming from the ongoing investigations of his unprecedented efforts to reverse an election result and resist the peaceful transfer of power. We wouldn’t choose to make history from an old, tawdry and legally problematic allegation about preelection hush money paid to a porn star to keep

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