Hello, you've joined the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is the Martin and

Ely Anderson senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover

institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at

Hillsdale College. This is our weekend edition. So we're going to look at a war

and that will be the 30 years war today. A little bit of agriculture and then

some current news. We just recently heard that Donald Trump was indicted. So

we're going to talk to Victor about that indictment. Stay with us and we'll be

right back.

Welcome back. Victor, I know before we talk about Donald Trump and his indictment,

we usually look for something positive and in the news today. And I was

wondering what your thoughts were about positive things.

Well, in the weird ways, I mean, there is a positive development. And this is

they've crossed the Rubicon, they being the left or maybe we should say they've

jumped the shark, pushed the envelope too far, but you can't have a

constitutional government when the existing administration uses the

department of justice to neuter their political opponent that is ahead in

the polls for an impending election. You just can't do it. You can surely not

do it when the existing president has more criminal exposure than does the

person who's indicted. Now, that's a serious charge. But let's break it down very

quickly. Joe Biden, when he brought documents out of the White House was

vice president. He was not president. Presidents can at any time declare any

document within reasonable limits, not classified. Donald Trump had that

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