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Intro Offer €2 per month Subscribe Now FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS CALLED FOR PROTESTS WHILE LASHING OUT AT THE PROSECUTOR. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images By Alex Leary , John McCormick and Lindsay Wise Updated March 31, 2023 5:18 pm ET Print Text Your browser does not support the audio tag. Listen to article Length (7 minutes) 00:00 / 06:44 1x This article is in your queue. Open Queue The indictment of Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury is likely to energize the former president’s most ardent supporters, further eroding their trust in the legal system and exacerbating national divisions as the case plays out. And new flashpoints may be on the horizon: Mr. Trump, the leading GOP White House candidate, faces additional investigations on potentially more serious charges, including his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. Your browser does not support the audio tag. What’s News President Biden Calls on Russia to Release WSJ Reporter P.M. Edition for March 31. Support pours in for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia this week. Plus, national politics reporter Alex Leary says the indictment of former President Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury is laying bare deep political divisions. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. 13:35 1x Subscribe Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio TuneIn Stitcher Amazon Alexa RSS “People have such strong feelings about Trump, it can’t help but inflame divisions,” said Republican consultant Alex Conant, who led communications for Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign and served as a spokesman in the second Bush White House. “There’s just no common ground on anything involving Trump. It will push people into their corners.” Initial reaction to the indictment involving hush-money payment to a porn star confirmed that notion. Republicans called the prosecution politically motivated and dangerous to democracy, while Democrats said no one is above the law and expressed concern about violence. Polls reveal a wide gap between how voters in each party view the allegations against Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump, who is to be arraigned on Tuesday, has called for protests—though so far nothing significant has happened—while lashing out at the prosecutor. On Friday, he sent out a fundraising email titled “RUMORED DETAILS OF MY ARREST” and used social media to criticize the judge assigned to the case. “I’m going to New York on Tuesday,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) said Friday on Twitter, “We MUST protest the unconstitutional WITCH HUNT!” House Republicans have vowed to investigate the prosecution, which the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday called “unlawful political interference.” REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R., GA.) SAID ON TWITTER, ‘WE MUST PROTEST THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL WITCH HUNT!’ Photo: suzanne cordeiro/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Some leading Republicans have been holding their fire: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Senate Republican, haven’t issued statements on the indictment since the news broke. Democrats have urged patience and respect for the legal process. “I hope that my friends and colleagues across the political spectrum remember that every American is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and that they also respect whatever result our justice system ultimately produces,” Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware said. Rep. Mike Levin (D., Calif.) wrote on Twitter that Mr. Trump deserved “due process under the law. As that process unfolds, let us neither celebrate nor further divide.” U.S. politics have steadily careened toward tribalism, with both political parties crafting safe congressional districts that have helped hollow out the ideological middle. Social media and a news environment that plays up conflict have also contributed. The Trump era brought new heights of partisan rhetorical combat and saw the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, something unimaginable not long ago. Trump Indictment: How a Potential Arrest Could Play Out You may also like CloseCreated with sketchtool. Up Next CloseCreated with sketchtool. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00 ADVERTISEMENT 0:00 PlayCreated with sketchtool. Paused Sound OnCreated with sketchtool. 0:00 / 3:06 ShareCreated with sketchtool.Closed Captions InactiveCreated with sketchtool. Trump Indictment: How a Potential Arrest Could Play OutPlay video: Trump Indictment: How a Potential Arrest Could Play Out Keep hovering to play Illustration: Preston Jessee A poll taken after last fall’s midterm elections by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service found Americans assess the nation’s political division to be high. When asked to rate it on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is no division and 100 is division on the edge of a civil war, the average score was 71. The indictment is also likely to dominate the national political conversation for the foreseeable future, Mr. Conant said. “It essentially freezes the GOP presidential primary in place as long as the case dominates headlines.” Mr. Trump’s rivals for the Republican nomination, who can’t afford to alienate too many of his most committed supporters, expressed outrage at the indictment while sidestepping the substance of the allegations. “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the strongest likely challenger to date. Last week he turned heads by also jabbing at Mr. Trump over the tawdry details of the hush-money payment. Former Vice President Mike Pence said on CNN Thursday night that, “At a time when the American people are struggling so much, that this will only further serve to divide our country.” TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY: THE WSJ INVESTIGATION * Read the 2018 Wall Street Journal investigation that uncovered secret payoffs and a botched coverup, triggering a criminal probe into the former president. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the only declared major candidate besides Mr. Trump, said, “This is more about revenge than it is about justice.” Still, some Republican campaigns have been privately factoring in Mr. Trump’s legal morass as they plot a longer term strategy. Meanwhile, Democrats continue to highlight Mr. Trump and his Make America Great Again movement as they see it as turning off swing voters. Disappointing midterm election results for Republicans gave weight to that strategy. President Biden, who repeatedly invokes “MAGA Republicans,” declined to comment Friday morning on the indictment. Some Democrats and Republicans who oppose the former president, though, are questioning whether the hush-money case could be a distraction or undercut other legal problems confronting Mr. Trump, including investigations into his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and storage of sensitive government records at his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida. Polls show views of Mr. Trump have hardened over time and most voters on each side of the political aisle long ago made up their minds about him. Overall, 57% of Americans think Mr. Trump should be disqualified from running again should he face criminal charges, but among Republicans, 75% think it shouldn’t be disqualifying, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released this week. TRUMP SUPPORTERS AT A RECENT CAMPAIGN RALLY IN WACO, TEXAS. Photo: Nathan Howard/Associated Press And 93% of Republicans, plus 70% of independent voters, think the New York case is mainly motivated by politics, as compared with 66% of Democrats who think the case is mainly motivated by the law, the poll showed, before the indictment. Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist and Trump critic, said she expects he will get a political boost from the indictment. “I think there will be a short-term rally-around-Trump effect that comes from how much these voters distrust the institutions that are prosecuting Trump,” she said. If he is charged with other criminal activity later, Ms. Longwell said the political consequences are likely to be more significant for Mr. Trump: “There are a lot of people for whom it is important to see a mug shot of Donald Trump and this will be their opportunity for that.” “But this,” she added, “is not the thing that most Americans are interested in holding Trump accountable for.” Write to Alex Leary at alex.leary@wsj.com, John McCormick at mccormick.john@wsj.com and Lindsay Wise at lindsay.wise@wsj.com THE HUSH-MONEY PROBE OF DONALD TRUMP News and analysis on the Manhattan prosecutor's investigation, selected by the editors Grand Jury Votes to Indict Trump How a Potential Arrest Could Unfold Case Will Likely Hinge on Evidence of Coverup Grand Jury Digs Into Payment to Second Woman What It Means for Trump's Campaign Who Is Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg? A History of the Hush-Money Saga A Guide to Trump's Legal Perils Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 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