When does the campaign stop being the campaign? Trump controversies highlight fuzzy lines

Published September 14, 2024 8:00am ET



Donald Trump was one of the most famous people in the world when he descended the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015. Since then, he has been in a constant state of campaigning, winning elections, governing, campaigning, losing elections, and campaigning again.

The lines between his conduct as a private citizen and his efforts to obtain, retain, or regain office have often blurred together. Those lines have seemingly grown even fuzzier for the former president, who has been indicted on several counts, and found guilty on dozens of others, for actions he took either before he was campaigning or while he was the president but may have been acting as a private citizen.

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