presidential campaign. laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against the former president in the coming months. that s according to people with knowledge of the matter. the grand jury was recently impanelled and witness testimony will soon began. the d.a. alvin bragg is nearing a decision on whether to charge trump. quote, super charging the longest running criminal investigation into mr. trump. a probe that began when donald trump s former attorney michael cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to a host of charges for making a $130,000 payment to stormy daniels to pay for her silence ahead of the 2016 election. it s been a long and winding road to today s breaking news. at one point last year, the probe which grew to investigate the business practices of the trump org seemed all but dead with two top prosecutors leaving the d.a. s office after d.a. bragg stopped presenting evidence to the grand jury. the new york times is reporting the probe is moving again. on monda
leadership who were in partnership with, appear with, ask for security to be provided by a group of domestic violent extremists, it would be all that the republican party would talk about. what is the what is sort of the obligation of the media and the other party and independents and people who ve broken with the zombie trump republican party like liz cheney and adam kinzinger to call it out? well, first of all, to your first point about if it had been the other way around, this is one of the reasons why people at fox news are obsessed with inflating the significance of antifa, because they want to create this sense that there is this left-wing organization and ignore now, don t pay attention to the proud boys and the oath keepers and all of these other actual armed militants who have close ties to trump world. let s inflate antifa. but imagine if you had joe biden or if you had kamala harris or if you had barack obama having these kinds of relationships, you know, to armed mili
Unfortunately for him, the No. 1 position is held by Joe Biden.
But for non-Trump Republicans, Trump s strong loss in November presented a lot of silver linings. Trump turned out a huge number of voters who normally would not have voted in a presidential election, and they largely voted Republican down the ticket. Trump also lost a lot of traditionally Republican suburban voters to Biden this is why he lost the election but
enough of those Biden voters picked Republicans down ballot for Republicans to have a good night in races for Congress and state legislatures.
This was a best-of-both-worlds result for most of the Republican party, since they added irregular voters whom Trump turned out while also securing some Biden-GOP split ticket voters. So instead of recriminations and blame that might ordinarily follow a one-term incumbent s loss, Republicans have continued to suck up to the president, pretending to believe he was the real winner and even making a half-assed attempt