When Fox News, Newsmax, Truth Social and the former president use the smoke screen phrase “witch-hunt,” the following critically important issues are what they want to deflect their viewers’ attentions away from:
Based on extensive criminal investigations by both State and Federal prosecutors, applications for warrants from judges, and the issuing of those warrants (based on sufficient factual information to establish probable cause that a crime was committed, and that the person named in the warrant committed it), former President Donald Trump has been issued four separate arrest warrants for his possible involvement in the commission of a grand total of 83 felonies.
For the record, felonies are serious crimes that carry potential sentences ranging anywhere from more than one year in prison or (up to) the death penalty (not here). Examples of felonies include murder, rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, grand theft auto, perjury, burglary and high-level forgery, theft and/or fraud.
Here are some of the most egregious of Donald Trump’s felony charges: Falsifying business records in the first degree, Unlawful retention of national defense information, Conspiracy to obstruct justice, Conspiracy to defraud the United States., Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, Conspiracy against (citizen’s) rights, Solicitation of violation of oath by public officer, Conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, Conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer and Conspiracy to commit filing false documents.
In summary then: four arrest warrants. 83 felony charges. “Witch-hunt?” No, just your run of the mill conservative news outlets’ tactic of “bait and switch.”
— Mark S. Gailey, Chico
