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I was traveling yesterday, but I gave CNN @jamiegangel a statement on the indictment of the former president for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and for the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.
Among other things, I said:
Among other things, I said:
This is an historic, tragic, and regrettable day for America.
This day is all the more tragic and regrettable because the former president has cynically chosen to inflict this embarrassing spectacle on the Nation -- and a spectacle it will be.
For the first time in history, an American president will be on criminal trial in multiple venues -- federal and state -- during a presidential campaign in which he will be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for the Presidency of the United States of America.
January 6 and the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, together with the first criminal trials of an American president, will now become singularly infamous events in American history.
These events will forever scar and stain the United States. And they will forever scar and stain the United States in the eyes of the world.
Never again will the world be inspired by America’s democracy in the way that it has been inspired since America’s founding almost 250 years ago.
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