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

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

overturn the 2020 election.

At this event, 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 in reverse, racist in reverse,

racist in 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 offhand, that statute is part of a group of laws called

the Enforcement Acts and they date all the way back to the year 1870.

The laws were passed in the wake of the Civil War to combat the rising threat of the

newly established Ku Klux Klan.

At the time, the Klan was engaged in a campaign of at the

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