Americans care less and less about Trump’s legal troubles

Another day in America, another judgment against the Trump family. In the latest, New York state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron has ruled that the Trump Organisation is liable for ‘persistent and repeated fraud’ and stripped the 45th president’s family business of its operating licenses in the Empire State. 

At first glance, it appears to be a devastating piece of news for the Trumps’ fortunes and a victory for New York’s unabashedly anti-Trump Attorney General Letitia James. And, if the judgment is upheld after appeal, it would be exactly that. But that still could be years away. So for now, this new fraud verdict can simply be added to that ever-expanding, unclassified file marked ‘Trump’s ongoing legal troubles’.

Judge Engoron, in rejecting Team Trump’s ‘bogus arguments’, suggested that the family’s lawyers had attempted to ‘glaringly misrepresent’ the law and added that their repeated efforts to fight the verdict ‘invoke the time-loop in the film Groundhog Day’.

In fact, it’s the ‘Trump’s ongoing legal troubles’ story that most resembles Groundhog Day. For seven years, the media has reacted to any and every vaguely authoritative-sounding ruling against Trump as a big gotcha moment.