Washington Examiner / Magazine
June 11, 2024 Issue
June 11, 2024 Print Edition
Cover Story
What’s next in the lawfare campaign against Trump
The first thing to say about the Democratic lawfare campaign against former President Donald Trump is that it has been a smashing success. With help from a senior Biden Justice Department official and a Biden-donor judge, Manhattan Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg set out to convict the former president on 34 felony counts and ended up convicting the former president on 34 felony counts. By any measure, that is a triumph for a prosecutor — and his party. Now, though, comes the task of converting a win in court into a win in the presidential election, which has always been the underlying goal of the lawfare campaign. Even with all of President Joe Biden's liabilities, including his age, inflation, and the border disaster, some Democrats believed that if they could just call Trump a "convicted felon," enough would-be Trump voters might abandon the Republican candidate to allow Biden to win a second term. (Illustration by Jason Seiler for the Washington Examiner) Maybe that will happen. Right now, though, it's too early to know precisely what effect Trump's conviction will have on the race. But it is not too early to see that the confusion, emotionality, and endless arguments surrounding the verdict raise the possibility that the political impact of Trump's conviction will be muddled. If that is the case, the muddle might also affect the public's view of the other Trump prosecutions that will go...

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