remains under seal but according to two sources familiar with the matter, trum is facing around 30 charges as a related to documents rob security in and around the men hat and court house who is bee beefed ever since trump bega making intimidating post o truth social directed at the manhattan district attorney office for weeks now, the twice impeached ex president has bee vigorously attacking alvin bragg online also attacking virtually the entire american justice system as the grand jury an prosecutors in manhattan get closer to indicting him. and in his first official 2024 campaign rally in waco, texas, last saturday night. his supporters held up posters that said witch hunt as he delivered a speech tha contains many baseless accusations that the prosecutors currentl investigating him ar politically motivated to tak him down given though he has been s previously occupied with the idea of being indicted, th news on thursday coming that h was actually going to be indicted sti
prosecuting former leaders a being associated with banana republics. but actually, a study that was done by axios found that since 2000, 78 former leaders in 7 countries have been jailed o prosecuted and since 1980, about half the countries in the world have ha such a case. our watercolor, monarchies and dictatorships are the places that are least likely to hav former leaders prosecuted an jailed sasha s view is this is democracy in action. this is holding power to account, and that s exactl something that wouldn t happen in an authoritarian government joining me now anne applebaum, staff writer for the atlantic, in the uglier institute. also pulitzer prize-winnin historian, and author of several important books, h couldn t twilight of democracy the seductive lure o authoritarianism an, and good to see. you think for being with u this morning thanks for having me. i think this is interesting on thursday, night as this happened, i was watching other media.