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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed John D. O’Connor.
The essence of the indictments filed against Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. federal court and Atlanta/Fulton County state court is that Trump had attempted to “subvert” democracy and overturn “free and fair” elections. But aren’t they in essence criminalizing free speech and petitioning for redress of grievances, protected by the First Amendment? And by doing do, do these far-reaching indictments, spanning elections in multiple states, cause so much legal expense that they are punishment without regard to guilt? Their massive scope, essentially relitigating the election in several states, means that a major presidential candidate will be tied up throughout an election cycle. But even if there is in these haystacks of charges various needles of unlawful acts, are these indictments chilling the speech of all citizens who dissent from what appears to have been a poorly administered election? So who is the real enemy of democracy-Trump’s actions or Trump’s indictments?
