Kim Wehle, a law professor who worked in independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office during President Bill Clinton's impeachment, said Trump's positions as a candidate and a former president don't make his actions political rather than criminal.
In that way, the conflicting black-and-white narratives of Trump's allies and critics - who portray him as a martyr and a crook, respectively - may elide the fuzzier question of when political action becomes criminal activity. "But we can understand how this is a first effort, relevant even if it fails, to restore some sense of accountability with those who hold the highest levels of power." Former President Donald Trump speaks Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., after his court appearance in connection with alleged hush money payments. "We don’t know how any of this will play out - the legal process, the politics or the impact on the nation more generally," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of numerous books on American presidents. The latter assertion isn't supported by recent public opinion surveys, but it raises the specter of a nightmare scenario for the GOP: Trump's travails could propel him to the nomination, only to cost the party the White House in November 2024. "Alvin Bragg is also making the best case possible to independent voters to vote for Donald Trump." "Alvin Bragg is making the best case possible to Republican voters to vote for Donald Trump," Greene said. Greene credited Trump's prosecutor, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, with expanding the former president's lead over Florida Gov. 6, 2021, and illegally mishandled classified documents.īut the most seemingly irreconcilable truths may be that Trump's political fortunes are rising - at least in Republican primary polls - as his legal troubles mount. The whole world was watching as Trump pleaded not guilty, and yet legal experts say the case puts him in far less jeopardy than allegations that he tried to overturn Georgia's election results, incited an insurrection at the Capitol on Jan.
The salacious allegations of Trump's safeguarding his 2016 campaign by deploying a fixer to buy the silence of a porn star paramour are somehow wrapped in a pedestrian 34-count indictment on felony charges of falsifying business records to keep the electorate in the dark about previous alleged affairs. The twin spectacles centered on one man - a former president standing first as a defendant and later as the favorite for the 2024 Republican nomination - brought into sharp relief a set of uniquely Trumpian paradoxes gripping the nation and testing its ideals. "The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it," he added.
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