When Donald Trump’s attorney and spokeswoman Alina Habba took to the streets on Thursday in front of the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, she described the former president as ‘the leading candidate right now for president for either party’.
It’s a slight stretch, but only slightly. Trump is within the margin of error against Joe Biden in virtually every poll, largely undamaged by the ever compounding series of ‘solemn days’ when he faces new legal woes.
Biden’s team is calculating that Trump is the least formidable candidate for them to take on next autumn
The American football cliché usually attributed to the NFL great John Madden is simple: if you’ve got two quarterbacks, you don’t have one. And in this case, the left is marshalling not just one case against Trump, but several – and experiencing the diminishing returns of such indictments.
Given how much clearer and stronger the Mar-a-Lago documents case appears to be, it’s astounding on a certain level that Special Counsel Jack Smith would even engage in this latest indictment.
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