From New York, this is Democracy Now.

If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him

as your party's choice?

Please raise your hand if you would.

Republican presidential candidates faced off in their first debate Wednesday night, but

frontrunner Donald Trump refused to take part.

Later today, he'll turn himself in at the Fulton County jail to face charges for attempting

to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.

They'll air excerpts of the Republican debate in Milwaukee.

At first, the head of the Wagner mercenary group you have guinea pergusion has apparently

died in a plane crash in Russia two months after he led a failed mutiny against Putin.

We'll get the latest as questions swirl over what happened.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now.

Or the Warren Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Examples in Russia, say the mercenary leader of guinea pergusion, was among 10 people killed

Wednesday when a private jet crashed northwest of Moscow.

The crash also reportedly killed Dmitry Utkin, senior mercenary commander who founded the

Wagner group in 2014.

I witnesses to the crash reported hearing two bangs before the plane tumbled from the

sky, an incident that was apparently captured in a video widely circulated on social media.

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