In our age of mass attention deficit, the manifold legals trials against Donald Trump represent a big challenge. Maybe that’s the point. It’s hard to care when you can’t keep count.
The whole objective of ‘lawfare’, as it is called, is to bully your enemy into submission through overwhelming paperwork. It might work. That doesn’t make it just.
Let’s be clear: calling the multi-dimensional legal campaign against Donald Trump ‘lawfare’ isn’t a statement of support for Trump, necessarily. It’s more a summary of observable reality.
The irony is that, at this stage in the presidential campaign, the legal warfare on Trump is increasing his appeal
The latest of four criminal cases against the 45th president of the United States comes from Georgia. Last night, Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, rolled out her indictment – which comes on top of the hush-money tax record case in New York, the hoarding classified documents case in Florida, and the 6 January conspiracy charges in Washington DC.
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