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Emergency Podcast: Trump Charged In Jan. 6 Investigation

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Trump's Defenses in the 2020 Election

The obstruction charge, for example, carries a prison time of up to 20 years. The law that's being used is from a reconstruction era set of laws that were passed in response to the KKK. Of course, if Trump were convicted, he would appeal so it wouldn't be the end of the story. And then there are the political consequences, of course, that being my bag as an elections analyst.

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