Sobering moment: Americans reflect on Trump indictment
From workers on the loading docks of Savannah, Georgia, to scholars and strategists watching from Texas, the indictment of former President Donald Trump rippled across a deeply divided nation today.
For some, the news brought hope, though for different reasons. For others, it sparked fear or outrage. For nearly all, it was sobering.
At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which commemorates the president who urged a fratricidal nation to go forward “with malice toward none, with charity toward all,” the Olipa family debated what’s happened to leadership in America.
“I wonder – do we not have leaders with the strength of Lincoln? Or do they have the strength, but we tear them down?” asks Andrew Olipa, one of two adult sons, who is visiting from Salt Lake City.
“Today, there is no common moral code,” says
