How the world reacted to Trump’s arraignment

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By William

The international reaction to the arraignment of former US President Donald Trump has been divided, with some newspapers’ coverage focusing on the developments and others using headlines with many puns to illustrate where their audiences stand on the case.

Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in indictments unsealed in New York on Tuesday.

The Republican, who is running for president again in 2024, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from a grand jury investigation into hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election, which Trump won. .

The indictment also accuses Trump of using a “catch-and-kill scheme” to undermine the negative press, paying to suppress one doorman’s story about a child conceived out of wedlock and burying another’s story. alleged extramarital affair, believed to be with Playboy model Karen. McDougal.

Front pages

The front pages of most British newspapers were filled with pictures of Trump as he appeared in court. Some used catchy headlines, such as “Trump in the eye of the Stormy” in The Mirror and “Trump in the dock” in The Times.

German newspapers cracked down on Trump with the Tagesspiegel with the headline “Nothing but the truth?” in a piece about Trump’s track record of misleading claims.

The new German magazine Der Spiegel published a column with the headline “He Had It Coming”.

“After so long dodging the wheels of justice with an endless repertoire of tricks, feints and lies, he has [Trump] considers itself right before the law,’ according to the column.

Der Spiegel also published another piece to contrast Trump’s love of the spotlight and his now difficult legal status in an article headlined “The Courtroom, His New Stage.”

Spanish newspaper El País stuck to the news with the headline “Trump accused of 34 crimes” and a picture of the ex-president and his lawyers in New York court.

Italy’s l’Opinione was more quirky, headlined “Trump’s longest day” as most of the front page was devoted to a photo of the former reality TV star.

‘Political Advantages’

Several newspapers emphasized what they described as the “political benefits” of the arrest.

In an editorial last week, French newspaper Le Monde wrote: “By replaying the broken record that invariably presents him as the victim of a ‘witch hunt’ and a ‘deep state’ plot, Trump is forcing his camp to side.”

Similarly, Brazilian newspaper O Globo published a piece titled “Trump Turns Dock Into Election Box After Criminal Indictment” describing how his advisers saw the case and media coverage as “a lucrative campaign ad” and “incentive to online fundraising.”

While China’s state-controlled media failed to cover the lawsuit, Russia’s daily Izvestia led its coverage of Trump’s indictment with quotes from Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calling the arrest “the crisis of liberalism”.

“This is when the system, declared to be absolutely free, finally devours or denies itself,” she said.

In an op-ed in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, a writer said China “snickered” at the irony of the US holding Democratic summits while trying a former president.

The Global Times, a state-backed nationalist tabloid, carried quotes from experts who said the case “further exposed the dysfunction of the US political system amid increasingly extreme political polarization.”

World leaders

Some world leaders also responded on social media. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele asked how the world would react if a Salvadoran opposition presidential candidate were similarly accused of financial misconduct.

In a Twitter post, Bukele also said, “Think all you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted.

“But imagine if this happened in another country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. The ability of the United States to use ‘democracy’ as a foreign policy is gone.”

Separately, ahead of Trump’s court appearance, Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban tweeted: “Keep fighting, Mr. President! We’re on your side.”

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