Keeping Trump in the spotlight benefits Democrats the most
Peter LaffinIt appears that the state of New York is preparing to arrest former President Donald Trump on charges of violating campaign finance laws during his initial run for the presidency in 2016. And while some have speculated that an arrest at his eponymous Manhattan tower would provide Trump with a short-term political boost , such an incident would only favor Democrats in the long term. After all, what’s good for Trump is good for an establishment that has relied upon the 45th president to be a convenient political foil and ratings draw for the past decade.
As with any major story, news of the arrest will play differently across different populations. The less politically engaged will likely take the development at face value: Trump broke the law (which appears likely, but more on that later) and now, he faces the consequences.
But for the more astute observer, Trump’s arrest, which will have been ordered by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg , who is a partisan Democrat, will backfire on Democrats. Many, such as Elon Musk , have speculated that the move will cast Trump in a sympathetic light and convince much of the public that the Democratic Party is tyrannical. The actual criminal charge against Trump — that he inappropriately shifted money around in 2016 in order to buy the silence of a porn star with whom he had an affair, thus breaking campaign finance law — is pathetically anticlimactic. And it doesn’t help that Democrats have been haphazardly accusing Trump of various crimes for the past seven years. An arrest on this particular charge will amount to a remarkable admission of failure by his pursuers.
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