The Trump Indictment and Whataboutism

<p>This week, Eric and Dan are joined by Emily Zanotti, a new contributing editor at the Acton Institute, as they tackle the latest indictment of former president Donald Trump. Again we ask: Does the act of indicting a former president and current candidate for president alone render America a banana republic? What’s the difference between this case and cases of other prominent politicians—such as Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Hillary Clinton—mishandling classified information? If there is a double standard at play, how do we rectify that situation to make it a single standard going forward? Next, the group examines comments by Bishop Athanasius Schneider that Catholics can’t suffer from depression. How should we think about the power of faith in the context of mental illness? How much of this is an overreaction to the seeming obsession with mental health problems in the modern world? And finally, we take a look at the lives of two very different people who passed away this week: Christian TV broadcaster and founder of Regent University Pat Robertson and the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.</p><br><p><a href="http://acton.org/audio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe to our podcasts</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump-Nauta_23-80101.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Indictment of former president Donald Trump</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/trump-indicted-over-documents/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump+Indicted+Over+Documents&utm_campaign=Trump+Indicted+Over+Documents" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump Indicted Over Documents | The Morning Dispatch</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/LifeSite/status/1667245176979587073" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Catholics cannot be depressed | Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Twitter</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/june/pat-robertson-cbn-christian-coalition-televangelist-700.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Died: Pat Robertson, Broadcast Pioneer Who Brought Christian TV to the Mainstream | Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/ted-kaczynski-dead.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81 | New York Times</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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