Here we go.

Former President Donald Trump was criminally charged Tuesday in connection with his efforts to reverse his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.

The charges mark the unprecedented third criminal indictment against the former president since he launched his latest bid for the 2024 Republican nomination. No other U.S. president, current or former, has ever faced criminal charges.

No other US president has ever been such a rampant, lifelong, determined criminal.

Attractively, he’s using it as a lever to raise yet more money.

Trump is back to fundraising off of the latest federal indictment against him just days after it was revealed that his allied political action committee has spent over $20 million on his legal fees.

The email appeal, which was blasted out within moments of the indictment’s release, follows a familiar pattern portraying Trump as a martyr.

“They know that I’m the only candidate who can dismantle the Deep State and end their stranglehold on our nation. So, their only hope is to try and send me to JAIL for the rest of my life,” the letter reads.

Fingers crossed.

The Trump indictment details how the then-president allegedly used “deceit” to get election officials in seven states to “subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes.”

The states identified in the indictment were: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

All of those states’ popular votes were won by President Joe Biden in 2020. And their combined 82 electoral votes were crucial to providing his margin of victory over Trump in the Electoral College, the entity that actually determines the winners of White House races.

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Former President Donald Trump had a tense meeting with Department of Justice officials in January as he and his allies turned to federal authorities to try to overturn the 2020 election, according to the federal indictment.

In early January 2021, Trump and a co-conspirator met with Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and other department leaders at the Oval Office in the White House, where the then-president “expressed frustration with the Acting Attorney General for failing to do anything to overturn the election results,” the indictment states.

Which…is not what presidents who lose second elections are supposed to do. Really not. Not supposed to try to get the Attorney General, Acting or not, to overturn election results so that the president who lost gets to win after all. That’s not allowed.

Special counsel Jack Smith gave rare public remarks after Trump’s historic indictment on criminal charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results.

The Jan. 6, 2021, attack was an “unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,” Smith said.

It was “fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government,” Smith said.

He’s a very very dangerous man. He’s probably already trashed this country beyond repair.