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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump increases Republican primary lead despite swirling legal peril

Trump waves after speaking at the Iowa Republican party’s Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on Friday night. In general election polling, Biden and Trump are closely matched.
Donald Trump waves after speaking at the Iowa Republican party’s Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on Friday night. In general election polling, Biden and Trump are closely matched. Photograph: Sergio Flores/AFP/Getty Images

Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton county, Georgia, is “ready to go” with indictments in her investigation of Donald Trump’s election subversion. In Washington, the special counsel Jack Smith is expected to add charges regarding election subversion to 40 counts already filed over the former president’s retention of classified records.

Trump already faces 34 criminal charges in New York over hush-money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels. Referring to Trump being ordered to pay $5m after being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the writer E Jean Carroll, a judge recently said Carroll proved Trump raped her. Lawsuits over Trump’s business affairs continue.

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