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Former US President Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday afternoon after an investigation into payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The indictment itself remains sealed for now in the first criminal case ever brought against a former U.S. president. Trump — who is seeking the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential race – has assailed the case as a Democratic prosecutor’s “political persecution” of “a completely innocent person.” KAN's Naomi Segal spoke to US expert Prof. Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University about the impact of the developments on the political landscape, asking first if this circumstance is a defining moment for the United States. (Photos: Associated Press)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.