Despite Trump ire prosecuting exleaders is common in democracies

Washington (AFP) – Donald Trump has denounced his indictment as an abuse befitting a banana republic, but the move in fact puts the United States in line with fellow advanced democracies that have prosecuted former leaders. France, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Romania and Croatia are among countries where courts have convicted a former president or prime minister, with charges pursued against former top leaders in a number of other democracies including Germany, Japan and Portugal. For the United States, there is no precedent in the republic’s nearly 250-year history — Trump is the first president, current or former, to be…