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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg listens at a news conference in New York, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump makes good on the Democratic prosecutor’s campaign boast that he is tough on Mr. Trump.

Protesters gather outside Trump Tower on Friday, March 31, 2023, in New York. Former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, Thursday, a historic reckoning after years of investigations into his personal, political and business dealings and an abrupt jolt to his bid to retake the White House.(AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Potential charges against Trump ‘not a slam-dunk case,’ legal experts warn

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, March 27, 2023, in Washington. Biden is kicking off his second Summit for Democracy on Wednesday by announcing plans for the United States to spend up to $690 million on democracy renewal around the globe. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden rips anti-transgender ‘attacks’ on Trans Day of Visibility with no mention of Nashville

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Countdown to cuts: Social Security has enough money in trust fund for only 10 more years

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Razor wire is strung along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

More than 1,000 illegal immigrants rushed border in El Paso, officials say

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Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, Saturday, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump campaign says it raised more than $4 million in a day after indictment

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This photo provided by the Montgomery County Police Dept. shows Sophia Negroponte. Negroponte, the daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte, has been found guilty Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old man after a drunken argument inside a Maryland home. (Montgomery County Police Dept. via AP, File)

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump facing at least one felony charge in N.Y. case, sources say

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Jay Fassl holds up sign as people protest against SB 480, a total ban on affirming care for transgender youth, while the Indiana House Public Health Committee has a hearing at the Statehouse, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Indianapolis. (Luke Johnson/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

Organizers cancel Trans Day of Vengeance protest at Supreme Court over ‘credible threat’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - This August 1967 file photo shows President Lyndon B. Johnson. A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give Johnson, then a congressman, a win that propelled the future president into the U.S. Senate. The audio recordings from Mangans interviews for that 1977 story were posted Thursday, March 30, 2023, on the LBJ Presidential Library and Museums archival website, Discover LBJ. (AP Photo, File)

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In this image from video released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, Alec Baldwin speaks with investigators following a fatal shooting on a movie set in Santa Fe, N.M. A judge is scheduled to resolve a weapons-related charge against a codefendant in the case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a 2021 movie rehearsal. Prosecutors have proposed plea agreement with safety coordinator and assistant director David Halls regarding his involvement in the western movie "Rust" and the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. (Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

‘Rust’ assistant director pleads no contest to weapons charge in on-set shooting death

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Jennifer Aniston speaks at "The Morning Show" panel during the Apple+ TCA 2020 Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Jennifer Aniston: ‘A whole generation’ now finds ‘Friends’ offensive

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Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, Saturday, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump campaign says it raised more than $4 million in a day after indictment

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, March 27, 2023, in Washington. Biden is kicking off his second Summit for Democracy on Wednesday by announcing plans for the United States to spend up to $690 million on democracy renewal around the globe. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden rips anti-transgender ‘attacks’ on Trans Day of Visibility with no mention of Nashville

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a ceremony marking the second year anniversary of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pelosi ripped for tweet saying Trump can ‘prove innocence’ at trial

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., leaves an intelligence briefing on the unknown aerial objects the U.S. military shot down this weekend at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 14, 2023. Fetterman is in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to seek treatment for clinical depression. His office said Thursday that Fetterman checked himself in Wednesday night. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. John Fetterman discharged from Walter Reed after treatment for depression

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The Cleveland Park Library in Washington, D.C., put up rainbow flags and a display of pro-transgender books for youth ahead of actor Kirk Cameron's reading of his children's book on March 29, 2023. Photo by Elizabeth Troutman courtesy the Daily Signal.

D.C. Public Library trolls Kirk Cameron with rainbow flags, LGBTQ books

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Dondi E. Costin, a retired Air Force Chief of Chaplains and current president of Charleston Southern University, was announced Friday as the new president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. (Liberty University photo, used with permission.)

Liberty U. gets new president three years after scandal-hit leader resigned

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this image made available by Vatican Media, Pope Francis brings Easter eggs to the young patients of the pediatric oncology ward, Friday, March 31, 2023 inside the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital where he is treated since Wednesday for a bronchitis. Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis, recovering from bronchitis, to leave hospital, attend Holy Week events

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

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A demonstrator holds up a sign during a march to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility in Lisbon, March 31, 2022. At least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022, the Human Rights Campaign announced Wednesday, Nov. 16, in its annual report ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Sunday, Nov. 20. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, File)

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Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions stage a May Day rally in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Thousands of trade union members and activists are marking May Day by marching through Asia's capitals and demanding better working conditions and expanding labor rights. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Dwayne &quot;The Rock&quot; Johnson stands on the field before the NFL Super Bowl 56 football game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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A person walks on the roof of a building damaged in a storm after a tornado warning in Johnson County, Friday, March 31, 2023, in Hills, Iowa. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg listens at a news conference in New York, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Alvin Bragg made tough-on-Trump record central to campaign for DA

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Protesters gather outside Trump Tower on Friday, March 31, 2023, in New York. Former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, Thursday, a historic reckoning after years of investigations into his personal, political and business dealings and an abrupt jolt to his bid to retake the White House.(AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Potential charges against Trump ‘not a slam-dunk case,’ legal experts warn

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Razor wire is strung along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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Russian recruits walk to take a train at a railway station in Prudboi, the Volgograd region of Russia, on Sept. 29, 2022. A campaign to replenish Russian troops in Ukraine with more soldiers appears to be underway again, with makeshift recruitment centers popping up in cities and towns, and state institutions posting ads promising cash bonuses and benefits to entice men to sign contracts enabling them to be sent into the battlefield. (AP Photo, File)

Putin expands military draft, risking social tensions in Russia

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Finland's President Sauli Niinisto signs Finland's national Nato legislation in Helsinki, Finland, Thursday March 23, 2023. The Finnish president has sealed the Nordic country’s historic bid to join NATO by signing into laws the required legal amendments needed for membership in the military alliance. The president's move Thursday means Finland is now awaiting approval from Turkey and Hungary, the only two of NATO’s 30 existing members that haven’t ratified its bid. (Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva via AP)

Turkey approves Finland for NATO as Sweden still awaits membership

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In this photo provided by the Belarusian Presidential Press Service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a state-of-the nation address in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, March 31, 2023. (Belarusian Presidential Press Service via AP)

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Iowa's Caitlin Clark tries to get past South Carolina's Raven Johnson during the first half of an NCAA Women's Final Four semifinals basketball game Friday, March 31, 2023, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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Orlando Magic guard Markelle Fultz (20) goes to the basket as Washington Wizards center Daniel Gafford (21) watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 31, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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LSU head coach Kim Mulkey celebrates after an NCAA Women's Final Four semifinals basketball game against Virginia Tech Friday, March 31, 2023, in Dallas. LSU won 79-72 to advance to the championship game on Sunday. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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This photo provided by the Montgomery County Police Dept. shows Sophia Negroponte. Negroponte, the daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte, has been found guilty Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old man after a drunken argument inside a Maryland home. (Montgomery County Police Dept. via AP, File)

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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A person walks on the roof of a building damaged in a storm after a tornado warning in Johnson County, Friday, March 31, 2023, in Hills, Iowa. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)

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Trang Le of Orlando, right, and Maria Korynsel of North Palm Beach show their support for former President Donald Trump after the news broke that Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, Thursday, March 30, 2023, near Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a ceremony marking the second year anniversary of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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FILE - This August 1967 file photo shows President Lyndon B. Johnson. A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give Johnson, then a congressman, a win that propelled the future president into the U.S. Senate. The audio recordings from Mangans interviews for that 1977 story were posted Thursday, March 30, 2023, on the LBJ Presidential Library and Museums archival website, Discover LBJ. (AP Photo, File)

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A police officer in Seaside Park N.J. photographs a dead whale on the beach on March 2, 2023. On Tuesday, March 28, Democratic U.S. Senators from four states called upon the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to address a spate of whale deaths on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The issue has rapidly become politicized, with mostly Republican lawmakers and their supporters blaming offshore wind farm preparation for the East Coast deaths despite assertions by NOAA and other federal and state agencies that the two are not related. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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Baltimore Orioles relief pitcher Logan Gillaspie, right, starts to deliver a pitch to Boston Red Sox's Connor Wong, as the pitch clock ticks to five seconds, during the eighth inning of an opening day baseball game at Fenway Park, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, arrive at Circuit Court, Thursday, March 30, 2023 in Charlottesville, Va. In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge on Thursday voided a U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is seen at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Friday, March. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

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George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna on June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) ** FILE **

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Members of the Geneva branch of Ukrainian society in Switzerland protest during a rally to urge International Olympic Committee to reconsider their decision of participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes under white neutral flag at the next 2024 Paris Olympic Games, in front of the IOC headquarters, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted by officers from the Lefortovsky court to a bus, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 30, 2023. Russia's top security agency says an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal has been arrested on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service said Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Russian recruits walk to take a train at a railway station in Prudboi, the Volgograd region of Russia, on Sept. 29, 2022. A campaign to replenish Russian troops in Ukraine with more soldiers appears to be underway again, with makeshift recruitment centers popping up in cities and towns, and state institutions posting ads promising cash bonuses and benefits to entice men to sign contracts enabling them to be sent into the battlefield. (AP Photo, File)

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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In this image made available by Vatican Media, Pope Francis brings Easter eggs to the young patients of the pediatric oncology ward, Friday, March 31, 2023 inside the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital where he is treated since Wednesday for a bronchitis. Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vatican Media)

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In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, right with fur hat, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington. Many of those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 cited falsehoods about the election, and now some of them are hoping their gullibility helps them in court. Albert Watkins, the St. Louis attorney representing Chansley, the so-called QAnon shaman, likened the process to brainwashing, or falling into the clutches of a cult. Repeated exposure to falsehood and incendiary rhetoric, Watkins said, ultimately overwhelmed his client's ability to discern reality. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg leaves the District Attorney's office in New York, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

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Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Georgia, listens to a speaker at a press conference, May 4, 2021, in Marietta, Ga. Police have determined a House Republican who led a tour of the U.S. Capitol the day before the Jan. 6 attack was simply showing his constituents around and not suspicious. The tour by Loudermilk had drawn scrutiny from the congressional panel investigating the insurrection. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

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