Does Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s unprecedented indictment of a former president open the floodgates for future ex-commanders-in-chief, including President Biden? Is the U.S. now, as Donald J. Trump says, a third-world country?

Trump has raised more than $5 million off the indictment for his 2024 presidential campaign, NPR reports.

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Other recent political news up for discussion …

•The GOP is split on whether to continue support for Ukraine in its defense of the Russian invasion, particularly in the House versus the Senate. 

•Trump-signed bank deregulation in 2018 is not to blame for the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, says op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

•Former Vice President Mike Pence, a presumed candidate for president in 2024, finally strikes back at former President Trump at the Washington press corps’ gridiron dinner.

•Is the GOP finally moving on from Trump? (Spoiler alert: no.)

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