hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. donald trump will be the first former us president to face criminal charges, after a grand jury indicted him over money paid to the former pawn star stormy daniels. mr trump is expected to appear in court in new york next tuesday to face the charges and enter a plea. he denies any wrongdoing and the affair saying the indictment is political persecution . our north america correspondent gary o donoghue reports from new york. this manhattan courthouse doesn t normally look like this. but then it s not everyday a former president gets charged with a crime. in fact, it s happened before. and this is the man who s brought the charges against donald trump, district attorney alvin bragg a democrat and a prosecutor in america s highly politicised legal system. but if mr bragg was saying nothing, the former president wasn t so reticent. he s called it political persecution , election interference and his opponent
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of the new york times. a paper, it has to be said, that donald trump took personal issue with. tell us in your view what this indictment means for the political future of former presidents donald trump. they are furious today, and listening to one prominent republican after another, including, surprisingly, mike pence, you know, very vocal in their defence of the president and they re kind of the indictment. it looked like, you know, it is, you know, helping him for sure, know, it is, you know, helping him forsure, and in my know, it is, you know, helping him for sure, and in my mind, making it more probable that he will be the republican nominee.