Donald Trump Indicted Over 2020 Election, Conservative Media React, U.S. Bond Rating
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Donal trun faces an unprecedented third, entitling this went over s efforts to subvert the vote .

and stay in power with trump .

is accused of conspiring to defraud the U. S. And depart voters of their right.

I mean, Martinis, we'd lay a final, and this is up first. Remember our news, despite the weight of these charges, here's how one fox news host is .

spending on the timing. This incitement was coordinated to take the heat off.

Trump is the front runner in the republican pretentious primary. Is conservative media trying to avoid alienating his base?

And fitch has stripped the federal government of its triple a boundary. The agency says there has been a steady deterioration of governance in the U. S.

Is that a wake up call for congress? Stay with us. We've got the news. You need to start your day.

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against donal trump, the third against him, results from what attorney general mark garland called the largest investigation in the justice department's history following the january six attack on the capital tram, is now facing four felony charges stem from his efforts to overturn the vote in twenty twenty. He did that.

the environment says, by repeatedly and knowingly lying about the election's outcome in order to hold on to power. He's accused of then exploiting the violence on january six to delay the election sort of fiction in special counsel jack smith, who is leaving the investigation. And after the environment was unsealed, he addressed nation.

The attack on our nation's capital, and january six, twenty twenty one, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy described in the entitled IT was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.

S. government. For more on this, we turn to, as we always do, N P, R, justice correspondent kerry Johnson.

Hi kerry. So more than a thousand people have already been charged with crimes related to generate six. Now download trump is among them. We know trump has been edited twice before the Carriers. Give me a sense of how unprecedented and serious this in digit is.

This is really as serious says that gives you mentioned hundreds of people who enter the capital. I've gone through the court system. Many of them say they were motivated by former president Donald trump and how trump himself is charged with four felonies, leading a conspiracy to draw the U.

S. Government he wants LED and conspiring to dee rail the congressional session to certify the votes this incitement has. Trump took advantage of the violence of the capital to advance his own personal goals.

Serious charges that really accused of trying to undermine the democratic process. How is trump er responding?

You know trump hou is the front runner in the G O P field for the twenty twenty four presidential nomination calls this election interference. He's a name calling the special council jx Smith and asking why these charges didn't come two and a half years ago. Even though cases of this scale can take a long time to put together, he also says he was relying on his advice from his lawyers at the time, and that may come up in court proceedings moving forward right there.

Worse, some cocoon spatters mentioned unnamed. Do we've been anticipating what this indeed might say about the former president and his role in the attack on the capital? For weeks now, you've been reporting on this, waiting for this. Was there anything that surprised you?

Well, I was surprising to me that trump is the only person who's named in this entitled the only defendant so far. But as you mention, there are six people who are labeled as co conspires. Their names are not included, but there is plenty of biographical information about them in the court papers, and many are lawyers who help promote these bogus election fraud claims.

Their descriptions line up with people we know who are of interest to investigators. These are people like rudy, Julianne, john, east man, sydney power and the former justice department lawyer Jeffery Clark. So we'll have to see what the suspension al council doesn't next with them.

okay. So what happens now?

Carry special council trim is says his investigation is continuing. Former president trump is doing courting in washington on thursday for an initial appearance and moving forward the case has been a scientist, judge tony, a chat can. She's an obama appointed in a former public defender. She's known as a tough sensor ung worry, six defendants.

Now, of course, trump is dealing with a lot of other legal troubles, this being his third criminal indepth. But he's also running for president. Does anything change if he wins reelection?

IT could, in some ways, Donald trump could be running for his freedom. If he's reelected, he might be able to get rid of this case in dc. And the morale go documents case in florida too, but not that state.

One in new york. Pe, because U. S. Presidents do not have the power to wipe away criminal convictions in states.

And P. R, just as correspondent kerrie john, and am sure we will be talking to a lot more in the future.

Thank you so much. My.

where you turn for coverage of this latest indepth helps to shape your understanding of the story.

Now for four president trump, the conservative press has been both a pillar of his support, no matter of the accusation, and an indicator of his popularity. And right now he's very popular. N, P, R.

media correspondent David fok inflict has been watching and reading conservative media coverage since the announcement of the indictment, so he can break down what's being said for us. How did IT morning so describe for me what you've been seeing in reading?

Well, in such moments, the general dynamic I find, is that the closer you are to announcement in the revelation of such event like this, entitled the more accurate and straightforward coverage tends to be, that soon fades. So last night on fox news, as a broke the political inker bret bayer head, a pretty straight head hour included comment from former vice president like pences, chief lawyer at very critical of Donald trump.

That said, I looked at the breath and worth of a lot of stuff online. Now you haven't seen much acknowledged that these may be justifiably serious charges with a few outliers. Instead, what I think you have ten to see is a lot of deflection and an argument without evidence that president biden has policy ed, the just department, the courts or radio headline from the federal list. Biden delivers another blow against its primary political rival with latest trumpet dietary.

So is this some sort of deflection? I need to describe how the deflection works.

Let let's take an example. A fox uses newest eight P. M stars, Jessie waters. Here's just a snip IT of what he had to say last night, the timing.

This incitement was coordinated to take the heat off by the, this is the third time this has happened. You're so, of course, president bindon's adults on hunter is in court right now and tax and gun violation matters. A plea deal with this same federal justice department has fAllen through.

They're figuring out there are going, negotiate, go to prosecution. The Younger binds also under the intense case of congressional republicans over trading family's named for profit and shows focused a lot on that. Last night, hony entity invited harder than body i've seen on dancing with the stars to refocus his viewers attention on honor biden, rather than the revelation of this latest entitled. And that was basically at the very top of his show last night.

So that sounds like what you're describing is some what about is m instead of covering this event, I mean, fox has had its critical moments in the past. But bear, the fox anker you mentioned earlier recently gave trump a grilling in his interview, but the network was strongly supportive of him during his presidency. And today there are so many other conservatives running against him. So why sticks so closely to trump?

Even now, the answer is probably the same one I gave you months ago for how fox found itself in court paying nearly eight hundred million dollars to settle a main suit over whether embraced trust lies about the twenty twenty elections in the claims of fraud that LED to january sixth. They simply don't want to drive viewers away. Murdoch is the ultimate controlling owner of fox news.

He really want the sand us to replace. Trump is the top of the republican ticket. But the santis has faded. And for the moment, trump t not only as a firm hold on republican voters generally, but on fox viewers loyalties.

And it's notable how persistent the support was for trump up and dow foxes lineup of opinion host as well as on news max and away and and elsewhere. If you think about these outlets, they don't want to alienate his voters. And this, despite back that a lot of foxes starts, reached out to trumpet administration officials to try to get the then president to weight, to stop what was happening on january six itself. So the talking points are surfacing. The scandal was not a tran's behavior, but the politicization of this just department once more an accusation made without .

evidence and pr media correspondent David for conflict.

David thinks you bet.

How dependable is the U. S. Government at paying its death? One of the nation's big credit watchdog says, not dependable enough.

yes.

Fitch ratings strip the federal government of its triple a bond rating, citing big government deficits and a steady deterioration governance over the past two decades. The downgrade comes just two months after leaders narrowly avoided a potentially disasters default on .

the federal debt. Scot horsey joins us now for analysis. Hi, Scott.

Good morning. Good morning. So in what way has the U. S. Government become fiscally unreliable, according to the ratings agency.

Well, the government continues to run up big deficits that's adding to a death that already top started to trillion dollars. And fitch says washington has no real plan for fixing the situation of the deal between the by definition ration and house republicans to suspend the debt limit a couple month ago barely scratched the surface that does limit some spending, but only in a small fraction of the overall federal budget.

And IT actually worsens the revenue outlook by cutting money for the irs. IT does nothing to address the long term chAllenges of funding programs like social security and medicare care for an aging population, and fish points to a pretty toxic political environment that seen repeated break manship over the simple question of whether the government's going to pay its bills. It's a coincidence that the credit downgrade was announced on the same day that the former president was indeed for allegedly trying to undermine the peaceful transfer power, but given the extreme polar ization and paralysis here in washington, it's no wonder some folks may think twice about whether the government can be trusted to pay its debt.

What's the bite and administration.

same treasury sector at janna yelland is said a statement saying SHE strongly disagrees with fitch's move SHE called IT arbitrary and says it's based on outdated information. Yellow notes the U. S.

Economy has bounce back more quickly than most other countries from the pandemic recession, unemployment, near a fifty year low, inflation come down sharply over the last year. GDP actually growing faster than a lot of forecasters expected. And all of that is true. Fh actually acknowledges that the us. Has a viBrant, diversified economy and a dollar is the envy of the world. What the rating agencies is concerned about, though, is policy making here in washington where that we're talking about top tax cuts or democratic expanding programs and the apparent unwilling ness of both parties to grapple with the long term chAllenges of bankrolling entitlement programs.

What is this practically mean, those scot, how does this downright affect the country's finances?

The practical effects may be pretty limited. At the dollar did slip a bit overnight, stock futures were down, but not dramatically. As the treasury secretary says, plenty of people still willing to lend the government money, even if they are demanding higher interest rates.

Now they used to. After the last big debt limit showdown in twenty eleven, another credit rating agency, snp, also took away the government's triple a rating. There was some short term fall out in this dock market, but IT didn't really impede the government's ability to borrow money.

The cost of borrowing is going up, though. In the first nine months of this fiscal year, the government spent six hundred and fifty two billion dollars just on interest payments. That leaves less money for everything else the government wants to do.

And what would you take to restore the governments triple boundary?

Well fit says, would consider raising the moderating again if the government were a grap seriously with some of its long term fiscal chAllenges that might mean adJusting outlays, raising revenues or some combination. The two and fit also says like to see a turnaround .

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