Quote of the Day

Well, it's the sweeping indictment that we were anticipating of alleging a broad scheme to subvert the election and to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power.

The allegations are shocking, even though they were expected. This really was an attempted coup, and so it is a somber day in our country, to be reading this narrative account of what the former president attempted to do.

– Jessica Roth
Former Federal Prosecutor
Excerpted from “What We Know About
Trump’s 2020 Election Indictment”
PBS NewsHour
August 1, 2023

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Related Off-site Links:
Trump Indicted for Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election and Block Transfer of Power – Eric Tucker and Michael Kunzelman (AP News, August 1, 2023).
“Most Significant Charges Yet”: Trump Indicted for Trying to Overturn 2020 Election – Jessica Corbett (Common Dreams, August 1, 2023).

UPDATES: “Presidents Are Not Kings”: Unpacking Historic Indictment of Donald Trump for Plot to Overturn Election – Democracy Now! (August 2, 2023).
Latest Indictment Against Trump Is Historic Rejection of Election Denial – Ian Vandewalker (Common Dreams, August 2, 2023).
Newly Revealed Text Messages Show GOP Officials at Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Outlined by Trump Indictment – Hunter Walker (Talking Points Memo, August 2, 2023).
Jack Smith Is One Step Short of the Full Case Against Trump – Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein (Truthdig, August 8, 2023).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Why Trump’s Classified Documents Case Is Unique
• Rahna Epting: Quote of the Day – June 9, 2023
• Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• It’s Not Just Trump: Ralph Nader on the “Lawlessness” of Other U.S. Presidents
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult
• Historian Nancy MacLean: The Threat to American Democracy Is at “Red-Alert”
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2022
• “How Can One Overreact to a Mortal Threat to American Democracy?”
• A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking Democracy
• “The Coup Attempt on Jan. 6th Was a Warning for What’s to Come If We Don’t Act”
• “My Biggest Worry Is for My Country”
• Republicans Pose an “Existential Threat” to American Democracy
• The Big Switch
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy
• “The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”
• David Remnick: Quote of the Day – February 13, 2021
• Dan Rather on America’s “Moment of Reckoning”
• Michael Harriot: Quote of the Day – January 6, 2021
• Insurrection at the United States Capitol
• Fascism Is Upon Us
• Saying “No” to Donald Trump and His Fascist Agenda
• Trump’s Playbook