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    Trump Discovers That Some Things Are Actually Illegal

    The cases against the former president aren’t criminalizing politics. They’re criminalizing, well, crimes.
    by Quinta Jurecic Aug 17, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: Cheney Orr / Reuters

    Following each new indictment of Donald Trump, the former president and his allies have wasted no time in attacking the case. Their complaints have gravitated toward one idea in particular: the notion that prosecutors have charged Trump for engaging in the normal work of politics.

    The latest indictment, in Fulton County, Georgia, is “an example of this criminalization of politics,” —who’d last month about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump on charges related to January 6. Jenna Ellis, who was charged alongside Trump in Fulton County, , “The Democrats and the Fulton County DA are criminalizing the practice of law”—a reference, presumably, to the indictment’s focus on her role as a member of Trump’s legal, “These monsters … are Criminalizing Political Speech, a total SHUTDOWN OF DEMOCRACY!”

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