Trumps Potential Trials Are a One-Man Stress Test of the Legal System

Published: March 24, 2023, 10:57 p.m.

b'It\\u2019s the end of a week in which former President Donald Trump said that he would be indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, for a hundred-and-thirty-thousand-dollar hush-money payment to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels\\u2014and still no charge. But just the prospect of an indictment has created a furor among Trump\\u2019s Republican allies in the House, who called Bragg\\u2019s investigation a \\u201csham\\u201d and the District Attorney \\u201cradical.\\u201d Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, led an inquiry into the Manhattan D.A.\\u2019s office\\u2014a move that the D.A.\\u2019s general counsel called an \\u201cunlawful incursion into New York\\u2019s sovereignty.\\u201d In this week\\u2019s political roundtable, the New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos look at the political ramifications of the still-looming indictment, the terrifying threat of political violence, and what a Trump \\u201cperp walk\\u201d could mean.'