The hypocrisy of charging Trump for classified-document mishandling while Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton received a pass for their own transgressions was obvious, but we were told Trump’s case was different in scale.
New York State attorney general Letitia James — who campaigned on finding something to pursue Trump for — brought an unprecedented civil fraud action in a case lacking a fraud victim.
As with President Joe Biden’s mental decline, voters trusted their own eyes over the tale being told on their screens and delivered a decisive verdict against an eight-year politically-motivated lawfare campaign — exit polls showed that Trump voters were more likely to say democracy was under threat.
The Justice Department appointed another supposedly elite prosecutor, Jack Smith, to find federal charges to bring against Trump.
Democratic strategists may have seen an opportunity, but voters saw all of these proceedings for what they were: rabid prosecutors making names for themselves; hack TV commentators assuring us these cases were authentic; judges making decisions and allowing convictions full of glaring legal errors that wouldn’t be corrected until after Election Day.
Not to be outdone by James or beaten to the punch by Smith, New York City district attorney Alvin Bragg dusted off a six-year-old case regarding porn star Stormy Daniels that even his predecessor had previously discarded.
It is worth recapping these efforts in full: Trump had just assumed the presidency in 2017 when former FBI director Robert Mueller and his elite group of DC lawyers began their probe into whether he was a Russian plant.
Trump to a jail cell in Riker’s Island has instead helped pave his road right back to the Oval Office.
The unprecedented abuse of the American legal system fueled plenty of cable news coverage, but it also alienated the electorate.
https://thespectator.com/topic/how-lawfare-campaign-against-trump-backfired/
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