Donald Trump's Indictment Shakes the Political Landscape

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened Pandora's box with his unprecedented indictment of Donald Trump, a first in U.S. history. Reports have Trump facing about 30 charges, but the evidence is yet to come. What does this mean for the 2024 Presidential race, especially Trump's rivals for the Republican nomination? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.7	Manhattan District Attorney Elvin Bragg indites former President Donald Trump shaking the
0:29.6	political landscape and the 2024 presidential campaign.
0:34.5	Welcome, Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.3	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member
0:42.4	Meneu Kweberua.
0:44.0	Late Thursday, the news broke that a New York grand jury had voted to indict the former
0:48.8	President and current 2024 candidate.
0:51.4	These are the first charges against a former US President in American history.
0:56.4	Let's start with a bit of the political reaction that is now bubbling in.
1:00.1	Here is Mike Pence responding on CNN last night.
1:03.1	I think the unprecedented indictment of a former President of the United States on a campaign
1:08.9	finance issue is an outrage.
1:13.2	And it appears to millions of Americans.
1:17.0	It means nothing more than a political prosecution that's driven by a prosecutor who literally
1:22.1	ran for office on the pledge to indict the former President.
1:26.4	If Trump is convicted of these crimes that he's being charged with today, should that
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