Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
No matter the charge, the defense is the same: Donald Trump is the victim of a vicious political vendetta.
By a quirk of fate, two of the most troublesome threats to the ex-President’s political viability and business legend unfolded almost simultaneously Thursday in two cities he once dominated. And he responded the way he always does, by going on the attack.
In New York City, prosecutors arraigned Trump’s financial right-hand man, Allen Weisselberg, on charges including grand larceny and tax fraud. And the Trump Organization itself was accused of a fraudulent multi-year scheme to avoid due taxes.
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House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has an unusual task on his desk this week: appoint five House Republicans to serve on the Jan. 6 select committee, which Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) created after Republicans blocked a bipartisan commission on the issue from moving forward. This all comes after McCarthy himself had threatened any Republicans who accepted an appointment from Pelosi with being stripped of their committees, and many Republicans even those who voted to impeach former President
Donald Trump have publicly expressed their unwillingness to participate.
Rep.
Liz Cheney (R-WY), who was ousted from House Republican leadership earlier this year for her apostasy regarding Trump, made it clear that McCarthy can go pound sand as far as she’s concerned. She accepted Pelosi’s nomination and issued a statement saying that “[t]hose who are responsible for the attack need to be held accountable and this select committee will fulfill that respons