The New Yorker:

Since the filing of new charges against the ex-President, many senior G.O.P. politicians have already adopted his framing of the Justice Department’s case.

By John Cassidy 

As Donald Trump arrives in Washington, D.C., to be arraigned on criminal charges arising from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he has already scored a significant political victory. The indictment—Trump’s third—was handed down on Tuesday, charging the former President with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, as well as conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the right to vote. Since then, much of the Republican leadership, some of Trump’s rivals in the G.O.P. primary, and many of the Party’s media backers have adopted his framing of the Justice Department’s case against him.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the most powerful elected Republican in the country, was characteristically quick to disseminate the Trump line. In a post on the social-media site formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday evening, McCarthy described the latest indictment as “an attempt to distract” from the recent news about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, whose former business partner testified before a congressional committee on Monday. “House Republicans will continue to uncover the truth about Biden Inc. and the two-tiered system of justice,” McCarthy wrote.

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