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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

Same world, different planet: Trump’s arrest lays bare US polarization

A Trump supporter, left, argues with an anti-Trump protester after she removed an anti-Trump banner from her outside the Manhattan criminal courthouse on Tuesday.
A Trump supporter, left, argues with an anti-Trump protester after she removed an anti-Trump banner from her outside the Manhattan criminal courthouse on Tuesday. Photograph: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

If the US needed a reminder that a rather large group of Americans completely disagree with another very large group of Americans, it got one this week.

Donald Trump’s arrest in New York City on Tuesday, when he was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in relation to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, was marked by diametrically opposed rallies, commentary and media coverage.

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