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This is a very sad day for America, and it was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C.,

and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken

buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that I left. It's a very sad thing

to see it. When you look at what's happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent.

This was never supposed to happen in America. This is the persecution of the person that's leading by very, very substantial

numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot. So if you can't beat him, you

persecute him or you prosecute them.

We can't let this happen in America.

Thank you very much.

That was, of course, Donald Trump, on a tarmac in Washington before his flight home to Florida on Thursday after being indicted.

Predictably, he spun a thread about his being thrice indicted for different alleged crimes that was about himself and his relationship with the American people. They're not after me, he was basically saying. They're after you. They hate

me, he says, because they hate you, because I am you. It's an extension of the schick which propelled

him to office as the unlikeliest president in American history in the first

place. Oresendetta, a reason to run and to keep running. He perhaps has little choice but to make

this grim set of events a virtue. Indeed, they go further than that. He and his campaign literally

say that each indictment helps him because it proves his case. So on today's episode,

a very simple question. Is he, are they right? Are the indictments an anchor around his neck

or the keys to the door to the White House to be president once more? It's Lewis here. Welcome

to the newsagents to the Newsagents.

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