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
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about stormy daniels was s imperiling to his election tha he had to cover it up. so, it was important to him. we had a cover-up, the america people were deprived of certai information, is it a crime we have to see is there enough information or evidence to prove, that we wil have to see in a normal proces but this is not insignificant. he thought it was significant. and to your point, some o the people who are not happy that this is first are sayin that donald trump has imperile democracy in this country. so what they would like to see is a case that deals with hi imperiling of democracy. obviously, january 6th, a phon call in georgia. your point is that this was th beginning of that. it imperils democracy because, what it does, in th same way that you have a hug mob of thousands of people who are violent in the capitol and attacked cops. that did not happen here but the cover-up is what i critical, and it was depriving the american people of vital information. donald trump knew it
people so what we are seeing, is th normal application of the law. we are seeing a former president being held to accoun in a normal way. this is how our system works in our system, nobody is a lov of the law nobody is an exception and this proves that is th case the argument otherwise, th argument that this is someho extreme or dangerous, or tha it illustrates our legal syste failing is quite dangerous, as you say, because it reduce peoples faith in those institutions and even around for a long time. now, it could be good because it may reinforce the faith in those institutions, o at least of people believe tha the rule of law triumphs ove other things that said, you have studie countries that have gone fro autocracy or communism t democracy. and in some cases, back th other direction. there is a danger here tha this type of prosecution, an
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.