Today’s notice: A buried lede in the newest political indictment. Legal challenges to Trump’s immigration crackdown keep humming along during the shutdown. DHS redefines “doxing.” A Republican governor bristles at domestic troop deployments. And: The “they/them” ad takes over GOP electoral messaging.
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Politically themed indictments? There’s an app for that. It was not long ago that Donald Trump took to Truth Social to complain that New York AG Letitia James (and other political opponents) had not yet been indicted. In one post, he announced the firing of the U.S. attorney he claimed was preventing that from happening. In another, he triumphantly promised he had found a U.S. attorney nominee who would make it happen.
(The Wall Street Journal reported that at least one of those posts was not intended for everyone to see, but rather was a DM from the president meant for AG Pam Bondi that he accidentally posted for the public.)
After all that, it finally happened: James was indicted yesterday by a grand jury in Virginia on one count of bank fraud and another count of making false statements to a financial institution.