The top pages of the majority of international newspapers featured images of former US President Donald Trump as he testified in court.
International response to the arraignment of former US President Donald Trump has been mixed, with some newspapers emphasizing the events and others employing headlines heavy on puns to convey their readers' positions on the case.
The indictment against Trump was released on Tuesday in New York, and he is charged with 34 felonies for manipulating corporate records.
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The grand jury investigation into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election, which Trump won, led to the charges against the Republican, who is running for president again in 2024. The Republican entered a not-guilty plea.
The indictment also charges Trump with utilizing a "catch-and-kill system" to kill off the bad press, including paying to hide stories of another alleged extramarital affair that was alleged with Playboy model Karen McDougal and suppressing a doorman's tale of a child fathered out of wedlock. Photos of Trump as he appeared in court were spread across the top pages of the majority of UK newspapers. Some chose eye-catching headlines, such as "Trump in the dock" in The Times and "Trump in the eye of the Stormy" in The Mirror. German media attacked Trump heavily, with the Tagesspiegel adopting the headline "Nothing but the truth?" in an article on his history of false statements.
The front pages of most UK newspapers were covered with photos of Trump as he appeared in court. Some used catchy headlines, such as “Trump in the eye of the Stormy” in the Mirror and “Trump in the dock” in The Times.
He Had It Coming was the title of a column that was published in the German news magazine Der Spiegel.
Trump "finally finds himself equal before the law after so long evading the wheels of justice with an inexhaustible variety of tactics, feints and lies," the piece stated.
Another article by Der Spiegel, titled "The Courtroom, His New Stage," contrasted Trump's love of the spotlight with his current precarious legal situation.
With the headline "Trump accused of 34 crimes" and a picture of the former president and his attorneys in the New York court, the Spanish newspaper El Pas stuck to the news.
Trump's longest day was the headline of Italy's opinion, which also devoted the majority of its front page to a photo of the former reality TV star.
"Political advantages"
Many media highlighted the arrest's "political benefits," as they put it.
The French newspaper Le Monde stated in an editorial last week that Trump was pressuring his camp to take his side by "playing again the broken record that inevitably shows him as the victim of a "witch hunt" and a scheme by the "deep state"."
The same thing happened when the Brazilian publication O Globo wrote an article headlined "Trump Turns Dock into Election Box After Criminal Indictment," in which it was discussed how his advisers viewed the case and media attention as "a lucrative campaign commercial" and "stimulus for internet donations."
State-run Chinese media did not feature the court case on their front pages, while the Russian newspaper Izvestia began their coverage of Trump's trial with statements from Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry, who referred to the arrest as "the crisis of liberalism."”.
When a system is declared to be completely free, she explained, "this is when it ends up consuming or denying itself."
A writer for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong claimed in an opinion article that China was "chuckling" at the absurdity of the US convening democracy conferences while prosecuting a former president.
Experts were quoted in the state-sponsored nationalist tabloid The Global Times as noting that the case "further showed the disarray." of the American political system amid a severe polarization of the political landscape."
World leaders
On social media, some foreign leaders also made comments. Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, questioned how the world would respond if an opposition candidate for president in El Salvador was equally accused of financial misconduct.
Think what you want about the former president Trump and the reasons he's being prosecuted, Bukele added in a tweet.
Imagine, however, if this had occurred in any other nation, where the leading opposition candidate had been detained by the government. The United States can no longer pursue its foreign policy through "democracy."
Prior to Trump's court appearance, Viktor Orban, the far-right leader of Hungary, tweeted separately: "Keep fighting, Mr. President! We are by your side.
