Analysis: The one-man split screen — leading candidate and criminal suspect — is forcing a badly divided body politic to wrestle with democratic principles that have never been so gravely tested. - jonallendc
Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images fileWASHINGTON — In becoming the first former commander-in-chief ever indicted Thursday, Donald Trump cemented the word that has most defined his eight years at the center of national politics: unprecedented.
From Trump's perspective, which is shared broadly throughout the leadership of the GOP, he is the victim of a justice system perverted to cripple the Republican Party in the next presidential election. "No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence," Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former House speaker,While politicians and legal experts debate the finer points of democracy — how to balance the founders' allergies to both special privilege for public officials and abuse of prosecutorial power — the grand jurors in Manhattan were required to focus on the facts of the case in front of them.
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