A new poll shows that about half of Americans say former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in what happened on January 6th. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 48% of U.S. adults believe Trump should be held accountable for what happened during the deadly Capitol attack.

Former President Donald Trump is mulling when, exactly, he should announce a presidential run for 2024 -- a decision that has become even more pressing following revelations by the House select committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

Over the past week, Trump told associates he is eager to launch another presidential campaign as early as this month to capitalize on President Joe Biden's increasingly dismal poll numbers and put his potential GOP rivals on notice.

Committee testimony about Trump's fight to overturn the 2020 election have exposed growing political vulnerabilities just as he eyes another presidential bid.

A former White House aide this week described Trump as an unhinged leader with no regard for the safety of elected officials in either party as he clung to power on Jan. 6, 2021. The testimony from the congressional panel investigating the Capitol attack provided a roadmap for prosecutors to potentially charge Trump with a crime, some legal experts say.

Typically, candidates would wait at least until after the November midterm elections. But aides say Trump is eager to push forward because the House committee's public hearings have targeted him in a sharply unflattering light.

Trump is battling investigations of his post-election team's activities in battleground states as well. And business regulators continue to scrutinize his dealings.

Biden shows vulnerability, too. His poll numbers continue to plunge:

Republican U.S. Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming says former President Donald Trump is a domestic threat, the likes of which the United States has never faced before. Cheney is one of just two Republicans on the House committee investigating the former president's effort to overturn the 2020 election and his encouragement of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. On Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, she spelled out why she finds Trump so dangerous.

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