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Convert the following right-biased article to unbiased center format. | Donald Trump and several of his allies have been charged in Georgia over allegations including racketeering and forgery in their attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in what is the fourth criminal indictment against the former president this year. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has spent two and a half years investigating alleged 2020 election interference, announced on Monday night that Trump and 18 others have been charged with a total of 41 counts, with the former president facing 13 charges. Trump has long denied any wrongdoing in connection with Willis' probe and has frequently accused the investigation of being a politically motivated 'witch hunt' against him. In a statement after the charges were announced, Trump said the 'legal double-standard' set against him 'must end.' 'Under the Crooked Biden Cartel, there are no rules for Democrats, while Republicans face criminal charges for exercising their First Amendment rights,' Trump said. | The new charges against Trump are the latest in a line of legal issues which have plagued the Republican for the past few months, including becoming the first U.S. president in history to be charged with a crime as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's falsifying business records investigation. Trump is also facing federal trials in connection to Special Counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case, the probe in attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the events leading up to the January 6 attack. Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP primary, has denied all the allegations against him in each case. Below, Newsweek details the charges the former president faces as he attempts to re-enter the White House. | Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Convert the following right-biased article to unbiased center format. ### Input: Donald Trump and several of his allies have been charged in Georgia over allegations including racketeering and forgery in their attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in what is the fourth criminal indictment against the former president this year. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has spent two and a half years investigating alleged 2020 election interference, announced on Monday night that Trump and 18 others have been charged with a total of 41 counts, with the former president facing 13 charges. Trump has long denied any wrongdoing in connection with Willis' probe and has frequently accused the investigation of being a politically motivated 'witch hunt' against him. In a statement after the charges were announced, Trump said the 'legal double-standard' set against him 'must end.' 'Under the Crooked Biden Cartel, there are no rules for Democrats, while Republicans face criminal charges for exercising their First Amendment rights,' Trump said. ### Response: The new charges against Trump are the latest in a line of legal issues which have plagued the Republican for the past few months, including becoming the first U.S. president in history to be charged with a crime as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's falsifying business records investigation. Trump is also facing federal trials in connection to Special Counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case, the probe in attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the events leading up to the January 6 attack. Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP primary, has denied all the allegations against him in each case. Below, Newsweek details the charges the former president faces as he attempts to re-enter the White House. |
Convert the following left-biased article to unbiased center format. | Former President Donald Trump was indicted on Thursday on seven federal charges, including conspiracy to obstruct false statements and conspiracy to obstruct, two sources briefed on the charges confirmed to NBC News. The charges from special counsel Jack Smith spring from the Justice Department’s probe of why over 100 classified documents were recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last August, even though a subpoena had demanded he turn them over to the government. It is the first set of federal criminal charges against Trump, but not the first time that his actions have been viewed through the lens of obstruction. If anything, as my MSNBC colleague Jordan Rubin has noted, this second indictment finally acknowledges that obstruction has long been Trump’s most obviously criminal behavior. The indictment, then, both somewhat vindicates former special counsel Robert Mueller and condemns Republicans who have defended Trump over the years in the face of similar evidence. In charging that a conspiracy to obstruct existed, Smith accuses Trump of attempting to stymie the return of documents to the National Archives and Records Administration even after a grand jury issued a subpoena for their return in May of last year. It was clear that the Justice Department was less than convinced that Trump was fully cooperating, even after his lawyers attested in a signed statement that all relevant materials had been turned over. When the FBI sought a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago in August, the affidavit stated that there “is probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.” While it may seem from the outside like the easiest of charges to file against someone like Trump, the statutes establishing what constitutes “obstruction” can be tricky to make airtight. A conviction generally requires proving three points: an obstructive act occurred or was at least attempted; it happened in relation to an official proceeding, like, say, an FBI investigation or subpoena; and there was a “corrupt intent” behind the action. It’s that last one that has been surprisingly difficult with Trump, despite his seeming lack of subtlety in insisting that he can do whatever he wants. He almost never writes down his instructions to his subordinates, finds it suspicious when staffers do take notes, and, as his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has testified, he has a tendency to imply what he’s after rather than outright demand it. | Republican senators, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are warning the indictment brought by the Department of Justice against former President Donald Trump raises serious conflict-of-interest issues for Attorney General Merrick Garland. The senators, who mostly spoke to The Hill in the hours before Trump himself broke the news of his indictment, cited Trump’s status as the leading Republican candidate for president and the fact that federal investigators have also seized classified documents President Biden kept in his personal possession after leaving the Obama administration. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned Thursday evening the prosecution of Trump “will do enormous damage to the rule of law.” “Indicting Donald Trump is the culmination of what Merrick Garland has been pushing for since he became Attorney General. The weaponization of our Department of Justice against enemies of the Biden admin. will do enormous damage to the rule or law & have a lasting impact,” he tweeted after Trump himself announced he would be indicted. Some GOP senators predict an indictment of Trump by the Justice Department (DOJ) will galvanize Republican voters behind Trump and solidify his lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field. Trump saw his poll numbers climb after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced a 34-count felony indictment against the president in early April. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the decision to bring criminal charges against the leading Republican candidate for president, who could face Biden in the 2024 election, takes the DOJ “into totally uncharted territory.” “I just can’t believe that they would even consider doing this,” he said, noting that Trump eventually returned the sensitive documents to the National Archives. “I think the precedents that these guys are setting here are going to be hugely destructive. We do not want DOJ intervening in presidential elections indicting candidates …. We’re talking about a document dispute,” he added. Hawley reiterated his concerns in an interview with Fox News on Thursday evening. “If the president in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what Joe Biden is trying to do tonight, we don’t have a republic anymore, we don’t have a rule of law, we don’t have the Constitution,” he said. “Joe Biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent.” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told The Hill on Thursday afternoon it’s “certainly not a good look” for the DOJ. “I don’t trust any action Merrick Garland makes,” he said. “This is where you start looking like a banana republic.” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a top Trump ally in the Senate, on Thursday agreed with colleagues who say the Biden DOJ faces a conflict of interest. | Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Convert the following left-biased article to unbiased center format. ### Input: Former President Donald Trump was indicted on Thursday on seven federal charges, including conspiracy to obstruct false statements and conspiracy to obstruct, two sources briefed on the charges confirmed to NBC News. The charges from special counsel Jack Smith spring from the Justice Department’s probe of why over 100 classified documents were recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last August, even though a subpoena had demanded he turn them over to the government. It is the first set of federal criminal charges against Trump, but not the first time that his actions have been viewed through the lens of obstruction. If anything, as my MSNBC colleague Jordan Rubin has noted, this second indictment finally acknowledges that obstruction has long been Trump’s most obviously criminal behavior. The indictment, then, both somewhat vindicates former special counsel Robert Mueller and condemns Republicans who have defended Trump over the years in the face of similar evidence. In charging that a conspiracy to obstruct existed, Smith accuses Trump of attempting to stymie the return of documents to the National Archives and Records Administration even after a grand jury issued a subpoena for their return in May of last year. It was clear that the Justice Department was less than convinced that Trump was fully cooperating, even after his lawyers attested in a signed statement that all relevant materials had been turned over. When the FBI sought a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago in August, the affidavit stated that there “is probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.” While it may seem from the outside like the easiest of charges to file against someone like Trump, the statutes establishing what constitutes “obstruction” can be tricky to make airtight. A conviction generally requires proving three points: an obstructive act occurred or was at least attempted; it happened in relation to an official proceeding, like, say, an FBI investigation or subpoena; and there was a “corrupt intent” behind the action. It’s that last one that has been surprisingly difficult with Trump, despite his seeming lack of subtlety in insisting that he can do whatever he wants. He almost never writes down his instructions to his subordinates, finds it suspicious when staffers do take notes, and, as his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has testified, he has a tendency to imply what he’s after rather than outright demand it. ### Response: Republican senators, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are warning the indictment brought by the Department of Justice against former President Donald Trump raises serious conflict-of-interest issues for Attorney General Merrick Garland. The senators, who mostly spoke to The Hill in the hours before Trump himself broke the news of his indictment, cited Trump’s status as the leading Republican candidate for president and the fact that federal investigators have also seized classified documents President Biden kept in his personal possession after leaving the Obama administration. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned Thursday evening the prosecution of Trump “will do enormous damage to the rule of law.” “Indicting Donald Trump is the culmination of what Merrick Garland has been pushing for since he became Attorney General. The weaponization of our Department of Justice against enemies of the Biden admin. will do enormous damage to the rule or law & have a lasting impact,” he tweeted after Trump himself announced he would be indicted. Some GOP senators predict an indictment of Trump by the Justice Department (DOJ) will galvanize Republican voters behind Trump and solidify his lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field. Trump saw his poll numbers climb after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced a 34-count felony indictment against the president in early April. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the decision to bring criminal charges against the leading Republican candidate for president, who could face Biden in the 2024 election, takes the DOJ “into totally uncharted territory.” “I just can’t believe that they would even consider doing this,” he said, noting that Trump eventually returned the sensitive documents to the National Archives. “I think the precedents that these guys are setting here are going to be hugely destructive. We do not want DOJ intervening in presidential elections indicting candidates …. We’re talking about a document dispute,” he added. Hawley reiterated his concerns in an interview with Fox News on Thursday evening. “If the president in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what Joe Biden is trying to do tonight, we don’t have a republic anymore, we don’t have a rule of law, we don’t have the Constitution,” he said. “Joe Biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent.” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told The Hill on Thursday afternoon it’s “certainly not a good look” for the DOJ. “I don’t trust any action Merrick Garland makes,” he said. “This is where you start looking like a banana republic.” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a top Trump ally in the Senate, on Thursday agreed with colleagues who say the Biden DOJ faces a conflict of interest. |
Convert the following right-biased article to unbiased center format. | Reporting from the Washington Post and New York Times indicates that former president Donald Trump has been indicted on seven felony counts. The indictment obtained by special counsel Jack Smith from a federal grand jury in Miami is still under seal, so the reports are based on leaks from people said to be knowledgeable. The most notable thing I’ve seen is that, in charging Trump with an Espionage Act offense, prosecutors are relying on a provision that criminalizes willful violations of the rules that government officials are required to follow in handling national-defense intelligence. This seems like an obvious effort to distinguish Trump’s alleged crime from President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, which the White House and the media-Democratic complex have described as inadvertent — the result mainly of sloppy staff work, not willfulness. No one who has been following our analyses at NR will be surprised to hear that Trump is reportedly charged with a conspiracy to obstruct justice. What intrigues me about that allegation is that it takes two to tango — i.e., one can’t conspire alone. To have conspired to obstruct justice, prosecutors would have to prove that Trump had at least one co-conspirator who knowingly agreed to obstruct the government’s investigation. At this point, it is not clear with whom Smith alleges Trump conspired. When the indictment is made public, perhaps it will shed light on that question. Trump is also said to be charged with making false statements. As I’ve previously related, one theory the special counsel appears to be pressing is that Trump is responsible for a false sworn statement his lawyers conveyed to the FBI — for transmission to the grand jury — on June 3, 2022. At that time, the lawyers represented that a thorough search of Mar-a-Lago had been conducted and that the 38 documents bearing classification marking that they were surrendering that day were the only ones in Trump’s possession. After that point, the government continued to investigate and developed evidence that Trump was still hoarding documents marked classified. As a result, prosecutors sought and obtained a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago on August 5, 2022. Three days later, the FBI searched the premises and seized over a hundred documents with classification markings, many of them found in Trump’s private office. Under the federal aiding-and-abetting statute, a principal is responsible for criminal acts of his agents, including false statements, if he has caused, counseled, or commanded their commission. Most interesting, though, are reports that Trump is charged with willfully retaining national-defense information. We can’t be sure until we’ve seen the indictment, but this appears to refer to subsection (d) of the Espionage Act (Section 793 of the federal criminal code, Title 18). In pertinent part, that section states: Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document … relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, … willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it [is guilty of a crime punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment]. Subsection (d) sets forth a more serious offense than the provision that usually applies to government officials who mishandle classified information and other national-defense intelligence. That provision, subsection (f), makes it a crime for officials trusted with national-defense intelligence to exhibit gross negligence in mishandling it (e.g., by removing it from safekeeping, by retaining it in an unauthorized place, by exposing it to an unauthorized person, or by allowing it to be lost, stolen, or destroyed). Subsection (f) would obviously be applicable to the misconduct of President Biden, who was entrusted with classified information and, at a minimum, caused it to be removed from safekeeping and stored it in unauthorized locations. Obviously, if Trump were charged with a violation of subsection (f), it would raise the question of why Biden has not also been charged with that offense. The strategy of the Biden administration and its special counsel, then, seems to be (1) to allege that Trump committed a willful offense that puts him in a different, more egregious category from Biden’s conduct; and (2) to pretend in connection with Biden — as the Obama-Biden Justice Department pretended in connection with Hillary Clinton’s email scandal — that it is not a felony for government officials to be grossly negligent in mishandling classified information (i.e., to pretend that willfulness, or some intent to harm the United States, is an essential element of the offense). In any event, these are preliminary observations based on media reporting. We’ll have a better read on things once the indictment is public. | Republican senators, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are warning the indictment brought by the Department of Justice against former President Donald Trump raises serious conflict-of-interest issues for Attorney General Merrick Garland. The senators, who mostly spoke to The Hill in the hours before Trump himself broke the news of his indictment, cited Trump’s status as the leading Republican candidate for president and the fact that federal investigators have also seized classified documents President Biden kept in his personal possession after leaving the Obama administration. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned Thursday evening the prosecution of Trump “will do enormous damage to the rule of law.” “Indicting Donald Trump is the culmination of what Merrick Garland has been pushing for since he became Attorney General. The weaponization of our Department of Justice against enemies of the Biden admin. will do enormous damage to the rule or law & have a lasting impact,” he tweeted after Trump himself announced he would be indicted. Some GOP senators predict an indictment of Trump by the Justice Department (DOJ) will galvanize Republican voters behind Trump and solidify his lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field. Trump saw his poll numbers climb after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced a 34-count felony indictment against the president in early April. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the decision to bring criminal charges against the leading Republican candidate for president, who could face Biden in the 2024 election, takes the DOJ “into totally uncharted territory.” “I just can’t believe that they would even consider doing this,” he said, noting that Trump eventually returned the sensitive documents to the National Archives. “I think the precedents that these guys are setting here are going to be hugely destructive. We do not want DOJ intervening in presidential elections indicting candidates …. We’re talking about a document dispute,” he added. Hawley reiterated his concerns in an interview with Fox News on Thursday evening. “If the president in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what Joe Biden is trying to do tonight, we don’t have a republic anymore, we don’t have a rule of law, we don’t have the Constitution,” he said. “Joe Biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent.” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told The Hill on Thursday afternoon it’s “certainly not a good look” for the DOJ. “I don’t trust any action Merrick Garland makes,” he said. “This is where you start looking like a banana republic.” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a top Trump ally in the Senate, on Thursday agreed with colleagues who say the Biden DOJ faces a conflict of interest. | Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Convert the following right-biased article to unbiased center format. ### Input: Reporting from the Washington Post and New York Times indicates that former president Donald Trump has been indicted on seven felony counts. The indictment obtained by special counsel Jack Smith from a federal grand jury in Miami is still under seal, so the reports are based on leaks from people said to be knowledgeable. The most notable thing I’ve seen is that, in charging Trump with an Espionage Act offense, prosecutors are relying on a provision that criminalizes willful violations of the rules that government officials are required to follow in handling national-defense intelligence. This seems like an obvious effort to distinguish Trump’s alleged crime from President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, which the White House and the media-Democratic complex have described as inadvertent — the result mainly of sloppy staff work, not willfulness. No one who has been following our analyses at NR will be surprised to hear that Trump is reportedly charged with a conspiracy to obstruct justice. What intrigues me about that allegation is that it takes two to tango — i.e., one can’t conspire alone. To have conspired to obstruct justice, prosecutors would have to prove that Trump had at least one co-conspirator who knowingly agreed to obstruct the government’s investigation. At this point, it is not clear with whom Smith alleges Trump conspired. When the indictment is made public, perhaps it will shed light on that question. Trump is also said to be charged with making false statements. As I’ve previously related, one theory the special counsel appears to be pressing is that Trump is responsible for a false sworn statement his lawyers conveyed to the FBI — for transmission to the grand jury — on June 3, 2022. At that time, the lawyers represented that a thorough search of Mar-a-Lago had been conducted and that the 38 documents bearing classification marking that they were surrendering that day were the only ones in Trump’s possession. After that point, the government continued to investigate and developed evidence that Trump was still hoarding documents marked classified. As a result, prosecutors sought and obtained a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago on August 5, 2022. Three days later, the FBI searched the premises and seized over a hundred documents with classification markings, many of them found in Trump’s private office. Under the federal aiding-and-abetting statute, a principal is responsible for criminal acts of his agents, including false statements, if he has caused, counseled, or commanded their commission. Most interesting, though, are reports that Trump is charged with willfully retaining national-defense information. We can’t be sure until we’ve seen the indictment, but this appears to refer to subsection (d) of the Espionage Act (Section 793 of the federal criminal code, Title 18). In pertinent part, that section states: Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document … relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, … willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it [is guilty of a crime punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment]. Subsection (d) sets forth a more serious offense than the provision that usually applies to government officials who mishandle classified information and other national-defense intelligence. That provision, subsection (f), makes it a crime for officials trusted with national-defense intelligence to exhibit gross negligence in mishandling it (e.g., by removing it from safekeeping, by retaining it in an unauthorized place, by exposing it to an unauthorized person, or by allowing it to be lost, stolen, or destroyed). Subsection (f) would obviously be applicable to the misconduct of President Biden, who was entrusted with classified information and, at a minimum, caused it to be removed from safekeeping and stored it in unauthorized locations. Obviously, if Trump were charged with a violation of subsection (f), it would raise the question of why Biden has not also been charged with that offense. The strategy of the Biden administration and its special counsel, then, seems to be (1) to allege that Trump committed a willful offense that puts him in a different, more egregious category from Biden’s conduct; and (2) to pretend in connection with Biden — as the Obama-Biden Justice Department pretended in connection with Hillary Clinton’s email scandal — that it is not a felony for government officials to be grossly negligent in mishandling classified information (i.e., to pretend that willfulness, or some intent to harm the United States, is an essential element of the offense). In any event, these are preliminary observations based on media reporting. We’ll have a better read on things once the indictment is public. ### Response: Republican senators, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are warning the indictment brought by the Department of Justice against former President Donald Trump raises serious conflict-of-interest issues for Attorney General Merrick Garland. The senators, who mostly spoke to The Hill in the hours before Trump himself broke the news of his indictment, cited Trump’s status as the leading Republican candidate for president and the fact that federal investigators have also seized classified documents President Biden kept in his personal possession after leaving the Obama administration. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned Thursday evening the prosecution of Trump “will do enormous damage to the rule of law.” “Indicting Donald Trump is the culmination of what Merrick Garland has been pushing for since he became Attorney General. The weaponization of our Department of Justice against enemies of the Biden admin. will do enormous damage to the rule or law & have a lasting impact,” he tweeted after Trump himself announced he would be indicted. Some GOP senators predict an indictment of Trump by the Justice Department (DOJ) will galvanize Republican voters behind Trump and solidify his lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field. Trump saw his poll numbers climb after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced a 34-count felony indictment against the president in early April. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the decision to bring criminal charges against the leading Republican candidate for president, who could face Biden in the 2024 election, takes the DOJ “into totally uncharted territory.” “I just can’t believe that they would even consider doing this,” he said, noting that Trump eventually returned the sensitive documents to the National Archives. “I think the precedents that these guys are setting here are going to be hugely destructive. We do not want DOJ intervening in presidential elections indicting candidates …. We’re talking about a document dispute,” he added. Hawley reiterated his concerns in an interview with Fox News on Thursday evening. “If the president in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what Joe Biden is trying to do tonight, we don’t have a republic anymore, we don’t have a rule of law, we don’t have the Constitution,” he said. “Joe Biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent.” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told The Hill on Thursday afternoon it’s “certainly not a good look” for the DOJ. “I don’t trust any action Merrick Garland makes,” he said. “This is where you start looking like a banana republic.” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a top Trump ally in the Senate, on Thursday agreed with colleagues who say the Biden DOJ faces a conflict of interest. |