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What are the primary purposes, arguments, or goals of each of these…
What are the primary purposes, arguments, or goals of each of these texts? Can you summarize each of their major arguments, theses, or claims in a single sentence? Can you identify any honest, blatant, or evident bias or preferences in their perspectives on their subjects?
What types of writing do these sources represent? What type of rhetorical category or source format would you use to categorize them? An academic journal? blog? An article from a major news site?
How might you accurately describe or assess the general credibility or authority of the writing from each source? What word choices or constructions seem to establish or emphasize this particular perspective, position, or mode of argument? For this portion of your post, please include at least one attributed quotation from each reading to support your analysis. Please make your best effort to effectively integrate this quotation into your analysis.
What interests you most about each piece of writing and the questions or problems that it confronts? Are these texts particularly useful, insightful, or rewarding? If so, how?
Finally, review our lesson materials relating to source bias and credibility? How would you assess or identify bias in each of these readings according to these tools? Where might they fall on the continuum of bias? How might their placement on this continuum influence or alter their credibility?
Article 1;
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/politics/donald-trump-fani-willis-georgia-grand-jury/index.html
Donald Trump is seeking a new court order to essentially neutralize the Fulton County investigation into the former president’s conduct after he lost the 2020 election, as potential indictments loom in Georgia.
Trump’s lawyers filed petitions this week attempting to throw out the evidence collected last year by a special grand jury, banning prosecutors from presenting that material to a newly empaneled grand jury that has charging powers, and disqualifying District Attorney Fani Willis from any related proceedings.
Lawyers for Trump say letting the investigation proceed would lead to “a violation of his fundamental constitutional rights” while he “seeks his Party’s nomination for the Presidency of the United States.”
Trump’s lawyers filed the separate petitions with the Fulton County Superior Court as well as the Georgia Supreme Court, asking them to intervene with the ongoing grand jury process.
Willis, an elected Democrat, has indicated that final charging decisions could come as soon as next month.
Throughout the probe, Willis used a “special purpose grand jury” to hear evidence from 75 witnesses including Trump advisers, his former attorneys, White House aides and Georgia officials. But Trump’s lawyers argued that these special grand juries are themselves unconstitutional.
“A regular Fulton County grand jury could return an indictment any day that will have been based on a report and predicate investigative process that were wholly without authority,” Trump’s lawyers argued in their filing.
“It is one thing to indict a ham sandwich. To indict the mustard-stained napkin that it once sat on is quite another,” the lawyers wrote.
The former president has previously attempted – without success – to shut down the state-level investigation in Georgia, which has zeroed in on his efforts to overturn the results there in 2020.
Article 2;
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/parts-trump-georgia-grand-jury-report-released-suggesting-possible-witness-perjury
A special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, released portions of a report detailing findings from the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and his allies interfered in the presidential election in Georgia as part of a larger attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The report indicates a majority of the grand jury believes one or more witnesses may have committed perjury in their testimony and recommends that prosecutors pursue indictments against them, if the district attorney finds the evidence compelling.
“The long awaited important sections of the Georgia report, which do not even mention President Trump’s name, have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital. Special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, releases portions of a report suggesting one or more witnesses who testified during their investigation into Donald Trump may have committed perjury
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A special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, released portions of a report detailing findings from the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and his allies interfered in the presidential election in Georgia as part of a larger attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The report indicates a majority of the grand jury believes one or more witnesses may have committed perjury in their testimony and recommends that prosecutors pursue indictments against them, if the district attorney finds the evidence compelling.
“The long awaited important sections of the Georgia report, which do not even mention President Trump’s name, have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.
“The President participated in two perfect phone calls regarding election integrity in Georgia, which he is entitled to do in fact, as President, it was President Trump’s Constitutional duty to ensure election safety, security, and integrity. Between the two calls, there were many officials and attorneys on the line, including the Secretary of State of Georgia, and no one objected, even slightly protested, or hung up,” Cheung continued. “President Trump will always keep fighting for true and honest elections in America!”
Prosecutors and several media organizations had pushed to release the grand jury’s full report, but Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney refused to do so, citing “very limited due process” given to Trump’s allies who’ve testified.
On Monday, the judge in Georgia said he would release the report’s introduction and conclusion, along with the section in which the grand jurors expressed concerns that some witnesses may have lied under oath.
Any recommendations on who should or should not be prosecuted will remain secret for now to protect their due process rights, McBurney wrote.
The report comes as Trump is actively campaigning to return to the White House in the 2024 presidential election.
