George Stephanopoulos Gives Pointed Commentary On Trump [Video]

This Week’s George Stephanopoulos opened Sunday’s show with a blistering commentary on the state of American politics today brought about largely by “what’s happening in courtrooms” and not on the campaign trail.

Stephanopoulos checked off the litany of legal cases against Donald Trump, and reminded viewers that none of this is “normal.”

“Until now, no American president had ever faced a criminal trial,” Stephanopoulos began, continuing:

No American president had ever faced a criminal indictment for retaining and concealing classified documents. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment or a state indictment for trying to overturn an election, or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two other states for the same crime. No American president has faced hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for business fraud, defamation, and sexual abuse.

Until now, no American presidential race had been more defined by what’s happening in courtrooms than by what’s happening on the campaign trail. The scale of the abnormality is so …