So, right now, at this very moment, former president Donald Trump is giving his first

extended public remarks since he was indicted on Tuesday for trying to overturn the 2020

election.

At this event tonight, Trump has been railing against the Department of Justice and multiple

federal and the multiple federal criminal indictments that have been brought against

him by that department.

He has called out Marxist prosecutors for what he referred to as racist and reverse-inforced,

racist, racist and reverse, just making sure you get that racist and reverse enforcement

of the law, which presumably means racism against white people.

According to his prepared remarks, there's also some room in there for fiery remarks about

the deep state and crooked Joe Biden, and you get the picture.

Now, because Mr. Trump is currently running for president, conventional wisdom might suggest

that he would make these remarks on the campaign trail, maybe in an early primary state,

like Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina.

But Mr. Trump decided that his first major post indictment public address would take place

in the state of Alabama.

And that is notable for a couple of reasons.

To begin with, one of the most important and honestly under-discussed parts of the

Trump indictment is that special counsel Jack Smith chose to charge Mr. Trump under section

241 of Title 18 of the U.S. criminal code.

If you don't know what that is, just off-hand.

That statute is part of a group of laws called the Enforcement Acts, and they date all the

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