Donald Trump using his police mugshot to promote himself is a terrible indictment of US politics

Editorial: There have been morally corrupt presidents before, but there has never been someone so deliberate in the manipulation of untruths

(The Independent)

It is a measure of the degenerate condition of American politics that a possible presidential candidate expects to gain from being charged with attempting to overturn an election, and from having his post-arrest mugshot broadcast across the nation.

But Donald Trump was never a great advertisement for what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature”. Where some presidents drew the best out of the American people, Mr Trump appealed to their less noble side.

Fortunately, the American constitution was strong enough to bend without breaking for almost all his four years in office; it was only in the dying days of his administration that Mr Trump crossed the line into inciting violence to overthrow the rule of law.