Trump will attack his indictment on three basic points. Let me rebut them | Robert Reich

You're going to hear these basic criticisms of the charges in the New York investigation - but they don't stand up to scrutiny

You're going to hear three basic criticisms of Trump's indictment. Each has some merit, but ultimately fails.

Let me rebut each in turn.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com