Trump indictments: How to tell if they’re ‘political’
If former President Donald Trump has a core defense against the indictments accumulating against him, it is that prosecutors are after him not for what he has done, but for who he is.
Mr. Trump and his allies have long argued that the federal and state charges he now faces are a coordinated political effort to derail his 2024 presidential campaign. It’s obvious, he says – he’s the faraway front-runner for the GOP nomination, and he’s the candidate Democrats fear most.
“When you look at what’s happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in America,” Mr. Trump said last week after pleading not guilty to four counts of attempting to overturn the 2020
