Why the indictment of Donald Trump is so dangerous for America
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 3 April 2023
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Today’s headlines continue to be dominated by the news that former US President Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on more than thirty counts related to business fraud. He is expected to appear in court tomorrow. There are three logical options behind this unprecedented series of events, and the fact that millions of Americans consider at least two of these positions to be plausible or even likely is damaging by itself.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | This is Monday, April 3, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's article is written by Denison Forum's CEO and co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.4 | Today's headlines continue to be dominated by the news that former U.S. President Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on more than 30 counts related to business fraud. |
| 0:27.3 | He is expected to appear in court tomorrow. |
| 0:30.3 | Unsurprisingly, reaction has fallen on partisan lines. |
| 0:33.8 | Some Republicans protested the quote-unquote weaponization of the justice system as a mockery of the legal system and claimed that the indictment makes us a banana republic, while some Democrats cheered the decision with evident glee. |
| 0:49.5 | Others have seen the indictment in larger terms. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts is warning |
| 0:56.5 | conservatives that if this can happen to Mr. Trump, it can happen to all of us. Former federal |
| 1:03.3 | prosecutor and Cush Cordorey writes in the New York Times that Democrats could also face a |
| 1:09.1 | similar effort by any of the thousands of prosecutors |
| 1:12.6 | elected to local office eager to make a name for themselves by prosecuting a former president |
| 1:18.5 | of the United States. He even envisions a day when former presidents live in and limit their |
| 1:24.9 | activities to states that are run by their red or blue parties. |
| 1:29.3 | It seems to me that there are three logical options behind this unprecedented series of events. |
| 1:36.3 | The first option? A former president of the United States and leading contender for his party's nomination |
| 1:43.3 | is guilty of multiple crimes, including a |
| 1:46.2 | felony. Second, a local prosecutor is willing to indict an innocent former president for partisan |
| 1:53.2 | political reasons. And the third option behind these events, Mr. Trump is innocent, but the prosecutor |
| 1:59.9 | and the grand jury sincerely, but erroneously, |
| 2:03.8 | consider him to be guilty. Unless the third option is true, a possibility I have not seen |
| 2:09.0 | discussed any queer by anyone, we have reached an ethical moment in the American Democratic |
| 2:14.7 | experiment, though we have not yet seen the indictment and have no idea |
| 2:19.8 | of the actual charges against Mr. Trump or their merits, multiplied millions of Americans |
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