Jack Smith

No American presidential election choice in 92 years puts the fate of global democracy in voters’ hands as does the effort of an Indian-American woman to demonstrate the existence of an optimistic America with international concerns

The former president Donald Trump appeared in a Washington court after he was indicted for the third time for using illegal means to stay in power. The four-count federal indictment contains a massive amount of evidence against Trump and his lawyers. The Justice Department team led by prosecutor Jack smith has painstakingly reconstructed Trump’s every day and every conversation from mid-October 2020 through January 2021 when Joe Biden was certified as president

The former US President sat quietly at the defense table in a Miami federal courtroom as his lawyer entered his plea of not guilty to the indictment charging Trump with 37 counts of violating the US Espionage Act. Trump is the first US leader ever to be arraigned on felony charges. Has he finally run out of escapes after a lifetime of breaking the rules and flaunting the law?