What does history tell about Trump’s criminal charges on his presidential candidacy

Xiaodong Fang
7 min readDec 5, 2023

Former President Donald Trump has been criminally indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in tandem with an alleged catch and kill operation to suppress negative press during his 2016 campaign, largely revolving around the hush-money payment to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels.

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Xiaodong Fang

Political Scientist studied and worked at #Georgetown #IowaState #JamesMadison | Observing #Elections and #China