Why Trump’s Indictment Is NOT a “Sad” Day For America

Andy Ostroy
4 min readMar 31, 2023

It finally happened. Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was finally indicted by a New York grand jury Thursday in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s investigation of the Stormy Daniels hush-money case. He is expected to voluntarily surrender at the Lower Manhattan courthouse Tuesday for his arraignment.

The New York indictment could be just the beginning of Trump’s legal troubles. He’s also facing indictment in Georgia over his election-stealing attempts and also faces federal charges over the classified documents scandal and his role in the January 6th insurrection.

Almost immediately after Thursday’s announcement of this historic indictment both the right and left reacted strongly. Many top Republicans, including Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, Kevin McCarthy and Lindsey Graham, condemned Bragg and his ‘political persecution’ of Trump. This continued fealty is astonishing given that Trump almost got Pence hung outside the Capitol on J6; hates Ron “DeSanctimonious”, his chief rival for the 2024 Republican nomination; and has destroyed the GOP that Graham and McCarthy supposedly love so much.

Graham even went on Sean Hannity’s Fox program and, on the verge of tears, said “They are trying to destroy Donald Trump’ and begged viewers to send Trump money for his defense.

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Andy Ostroy

Director, producer, podcaster, writer, resistor, non-profit-supporter of women filmmakers