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My One Thought About the Indictment of Donald Trump

Please excuse my total indifference to this event.

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Daniel W. Drezner
Apr 05, 2023
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Former president Donald Trump was arraigned today in a Manhattan court on a 34-count felony indictment. There has been a lot of press coverage of it; as Axios notes, “no U.S. president has ever before faced criminal charges.” And yet I must confess that my reaction to all of it can be reduced to three words:

I don’t care.

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