Today is Monday, June the 12th, 2023.

Welcome to the Daily Article podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Former President Donald Trump is set to appear in a Miami courtroom tomorrow after a federal indictment,

unsealed Friday, charged him with 37 felony counts related to his handling of classified

information. Dean Phillips, a Democratic congressman from Minnesota, said of Mr. Trump and the charges

against him, quote, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but we don't need a judge or jury to determine

if his destruction of decency and dangerous incompetence continues to stain America, end quote.

Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia of California added, Donald Trump is a conman who damaged our

institutions, turned us against each other, and who will finally be held

accountable by the country he tried to destroy. By contrast, just 17% of Republicans in a recent

poll thought Mr. Trump should be charged over how he handled classified documents. 75% said he

should not be. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called the indictment a brazen weaponization of power,

and several other Republican leaders voiced similar protests. Some of Mr. Trump's supporters even called

for civil war and acts of violence and public executions of the quote-unquote traitorous rats

behind the charges. The Wall Street Journal editorial board called the indictment

a fraught moment for American democracy. It explained, for the first time in U.S. history,

the prosecutorial power of the federal government has been used against a former president,

who is also running against the setting president. The board predicted that the

indictment will royal the 2024 election and U.S. politics for years to come. New York Times

columnist Peter Baker likewise writes that the indictment, quote, poses one of the gravest challenges

to democracy the country has ever faced. It represents either a validation

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