Former President Donald Trump enjoys a plurality of support among Republicans despite facing 91 criminal charges across four jurisdictions— Georgia, Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. Independent voters, meanwhile, remain divided in their support for President Trump in light of the indictments plaguing him.
“I think [the Democrats] are afraid of Trump and should be,” Chris Abbott, an independent voter in Chicago, told The Epoch Times.
“They are going to do whatever they can. And if that means weaponizing the DOJ, that’s what they will do. We are at an unprecedented time in history and I think the next year is going to be very telling and very exciting.”
Mr. Abbott says he plans on supporting Mr. Trump in 2024, though he could be an outlier as an independent as more than half of Americans say they won’t support the former president, according to a survey by the Associated Press.
Gale Gurule, an independent voter out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is one such voter who says Mr. Trump should go to prison.
“He needs to go to prison; he’s giving away the secrets to our country. He made us look like fools,” Ms. Gurule told The Epoch Times. “And he bragged about it.”
Other unaffiliated voters remain ambivalent about their support for Mr. Trump despite the four indictments the former president is under.
Biden Records
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is calling on the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to provide then-Vice President Joe Biden’s records regarding his duties as vice president that may have overlapped with his son’s activities in Ukraine.“Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling. We already have evidence of then-Vice President Biden speaking, dining, and having coffee with his son’s foreign business associates,” said House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)
“We also know that Hunter Biden and his associates were informed of then-Vice President Biden’s official government duties in countries where they had a financial interest. The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption.”
Trump’s Indictments
President Trump has been indicted four times in recent months. The latest indictment is out of Georgia, where he was charged on 13 counts in Georgia state court, including under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Eighteen others were also charged in the former president’s alleged conspiracy. The counts mostly relate to the Trump campaign’s alleged effort to put together a slate of “alternate” electors from Georgia to support President Trump over President Biden.In Washington, D.C., the former president faces a federal election interference case spearheaded by DOJ special counsel Jack Smith. A federal grand jury indicted President Trump on four counts of criminal felonies. The charges focus on President Trump and six of his unnamed associate’s alleged efforts to interfere with the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Another case spearheaded by Mr. Smith is the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in Florida, where President Trump is facing 40 charges in federal court in Miami, all related to his alleged illegal retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club after leaving the White House.
A superseding indictment issued in July added charges accusing President Trump of asking for surveillance footage at his Mar-a-Lago estate to be deleted after FBI and Justice Department investigators visited in June 2022 to collect classified documents he took with him after leaving the White House. The new indictment also charged him with illegally holding onto a document he allegedly showed off to visitors in New Jersey.
Lastly, there is the “hush money scheme,” where President Trump was indicted in New York in March on state charges stemming from hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
Trump Responds
The former president has largely taken to his social media platform Truth Social to respond to the various charges against him.“WE HAVE A DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE RIGGING THE ELECTION FOR CROOKED JOE BIDEN. UNLESS IT IS QUICKLY STOPPED, ALL FUTURE ELECTIONS WILL FOLLOW THE SAME PATH!” he wrote on Aug 21.
President Trump also went after George Gov. Brian Kemp on the same day.
“Governor Kemp of Georgia is fighting hard against the Impeachment of the crooked, incompetent, & highly partisan D.A. of Fulton County, Fani Willis, who has allowed Murder and other Violent Crime to MASSIVELY ESCALATE. Crime in Atlanta is WORST IN NATION. She should be impeached for many reasons, not just the Witch Hunt (I did nothing wrong!). Willis should focus on out of control Murder, not ‘I will get TRUMP’ over a Perfect Phone Call. Georgia does not deserve this GIANT MURDER WAVE!”
