Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush and Fox News commenter Karl Rove wrote an op-ed piece about former President Donald Trump and his recent indictment for The Wall Street Journal.
Rove writes: “No matter the outcome, America will pay a high price for the former president’s reckless petulance. So will he.” He adds that Trump’s case “will further tear our country apart, as it has a heavy impact on the presidential campaign and—wrongly—undermines confidence in our justice system.”
Rove makes his opinion clear: “The blame for this calamity rests solely on Mr. Trump and his childish impulse to keep mementos from his time in the Oval Office, no matter what the law says.”
Unlike Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges of falsifying business records, this indictment is devastating in its rigor of evidence and the seriousness of the alleged crimes, writes @KarlRove https://t.co/wr7C7d6hvJ
— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) June 17, 2023
Rove is the author of the memoir Courage & Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight — in which he writes about his “painful three years fending off an indictment process” — and The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.
[William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. As a politician, McKinley led a realignment that made his Republican Party largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide until the 1930s.
McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz during a public event in Buffalo, New York, and died from his injuries eight days later. Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him as President.]
