{"id":11427,"date":"2023-08-11T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2023-08-11T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:54:00","slug":"is-trumps-latest-indictment-about-defending-democracy-or-attacking-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11427","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump&#8217;s Latest Indictment About Defending Democracy or Attacking Free Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;French adds that &#8220;the case is no slam dunk.&#8221; But &#8220;if a prosecutor believes\u2014as Smith appears to\u2014that he can prove Trump knew his claims were false and then engineered a series of schemes to cajole, coerce, deceive and defraud in order to preserve his place in the White House, it would be a travesty of justice not to file charges,&#8221; he writes.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/08\/02\/is-trumps-latest-indictment-about-defending-democracy-or-attacking-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/08\/02\/is-trumps-latest-indictment-about-defending-democracy-or-attacking-free-speech\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;French adds that &#8220;the case is no slam dunk.&#8221; But &#8220;if a prosecutor believes\u2014as Smith appears to\u2014that he can prove Trump knew his claims were false and then engineered a series of schemes to cajole, coerce, deceive and defraud in order to preserve his place in the White House, it would be a travesty of justice not to file charges,&#8221; he writes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,744,280,431,660,221,372,875,848,1853,170],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-indictment","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11428,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}