Zero Hedge

Authored by Terri Wu and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times,

With last week's indictment of former President Donald Trump, the country has entered an unsettling new era characterized by chronic dysfunction, according to prominent conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson.

The New York grand jury's indictment of Trump, the first ever of a current or former president, is "going to open up a new phase we've never seen before in the country that political differences are going to be adjudicated out by warring prosecutors," Hanson told The Epoch Times on April 3.

Hanson, a Hoover Institution fellow, in the interview, shared his perspective on the left's strategy to undermine the republic, the simmering anger of half of the country, and the best way Trump could react to the criminal probes targeting him.

On March 30, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump in relation to the payment of hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 presidential election.

Although the specifics of the charges will not be disclosed until the arraignment hearing on April 4, they are widely expected to include felony charges of falsifying business records. This charge would require Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to prove that Trump forged records to cover up a violation of federal campaign finance laws—a novel legal strategy that some experts believe to be high risk.

In addition to this case, Trump faces three other criminal probes. Special counsel Jack Smith is investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents, and his alleged role in interfering with the 2020 election results and the lawful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021. A Fulton County grand jury is also probing whether Trump unlawfully interfered with the 2020 election in Georgia.