Donald Trumps Indictment: How America’s Friends and Foes Realize It

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Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on 34 felony counts for misusing campaign funds as hush money for an alleged cause.

The Federal Elections Commission dismissed the case, but Manhattan’s District Attorney, a Democrat who campaigned on a promise to arrest Trump, took it up.

This is the first in US history of criminal charges against a former president. Critics call it a dangerous precedent and unequal treatment, since Hillary Clinton was found guilty of nearly identical campaign finance violations and faces a small fine, not jail time. Meanwhile, supporters of the move say it’s a sign of a healthy democracy, that no one is above the law.

Are these trumped up charges or due process? How is the high-level drama seen by America’s friends and foes? Does this affect America’s standing in the world, or is it just politics as usual? And does it signal something about the state of leadership in general? Is the legal system becoming a weapon in the free world? Is lady justice still blind?

Journalists Claude Porsella, Rebekah Koffler, and Pierre Chiartano join us to discuss the possibilities.

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