victim of political persecution. this is an attack on the fabric of our system. his opponents say no one is above the law. this is about accountability. how strong is the case against him? there really is a question about whether this is a valid prosecution. should he be invoking his right to remain silent and in the race for president, his would be 2024 rivals are forced to defend the man they want to defeat. the unprecedented indictment of a former president of the united states is an outrage. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby . phillip. thank you for joining us real estate tycoon television star president of the united states, and this week, donald j . trump will add a new title criminal defendant. trump will fly to new york on on monday and will be arraigned in lower manhattan on tuesday, and sources tell cnn that the indictment includes more than 30 counts related to business fraud , though the specifics remain under seal. we ll see what evidence there is when
serious investigations. you might say one of them doesn t showcase anything, but when you look at all three of them combined, it should give americans pause. laura we were just discussing that very argument. just write that the coming potential indictments, you know, i mean, hutchinson is one of the ones that appears to have gone the furthest out of the people that are potentially considering or running against the former president. you know, one thing also about his initial statement was that he said that it s up to voters to decide whether or not trump will be the nominee. he said both things i mean, he said trump should drop out, but also but it s the voters should decide when i talk to republicans. strategist in swing states. they say that the only way you re going to take down trump and this is slightly to sarah s point is if you are being affective and loud about distancing yourself from him and really go for the jugular there, and hutchinson is as you said, testing it not fully
trump wins in court? and he wins the election. let s discuss all of this with our great political panel. cnn s david chalian laura baron lopez of the pbs news hour sarah long well of the bulwark and cnn s jeff zeleny and jeff what s striking to me? it s not that they re defending him. obviously i think that we would expect, especially those individuals to defend him. but it s the tone of it, uh, dialing up the outrage meter as high as they can possibly get it, which seems to me to be right out of trump s playbook. producing outraged about something that now is in the hands of the legal sphere without question. i mean, we ve not really seen the rallying behind the former president since the last time he had a crisis of trouble, so we have seen it many times, but it s been a minute and we all have been sort of wondering this year. is it going to be different is the exhaustion factor for the former president? so high? will this be different? it s not different. it s exactly the same. when