Trump denounces indictment as ‘political persecution.’

Donald J. Trump responded to the news that he had been indicted in a statement, calling the Manhattan grand jury vote “political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.” Mr. Trump’s statement echoed what has been an extraordinary and blistering effort to try to prevent the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, from indicting him. Still, it was remarkable in how aggressive it was against the prosecution, and a signal of what else may come. “The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying...