Four major criminal charges have been brought against former President Donald Trump. In addition to them, a number of civil and financial disputes are ongoing.
It is clear that the ex-president intends to exploit the events and see them as a PR opportunity, writes TV4 Nyheternas Lisa Grenfors.
This is done like a banana republic! This is political warfare like in the third world! The words are Donald Trump’s and he wants to give the impression that the fraud case against him in the court in New York is hardly an expression of justice in the United States but rather a political story that belongs in some “shady” country.
Trump thinks he is being slandered and that the judge wants to hurt him. You don’t need to be a professor of political science to figure out that this is how the trial would turn out. A PR opportunity where Trump laid out the text to such a mild degree that the judge had to hush, reprimand and interrupt his political exposition.
Trump’s own legal team referred to him as “the future president.”
Wind in the sails – in step with the prosecution
But this, as most people know, is not the only target against Donald Trump. The other lawsuits allege that he deliberately tried to change the election results in 2020, that he tried to silence witnesses and stored secret documents in his Mar-a-Lago home.
There is less than a year until there is an election in the United States. It increasingly looks as if Trump and Biden will be the two candidates who will fight for the presidency. In the Republican ranks, Trump has long been well ahead of his opponents. As the charges have been brought, the opinion polls have given Trump more and more wind in his sails.
The prognosis: Loses the election if he is impeached
It appears that Trump has an almost unassailable lead over his Republican challengers. At the same time, it is not obvious that he would win in the fight against Democrat and incumbent President Joe Biden. These are even numbers.
Above all, a survey in the New York Times shows that Trump would lose six important states if he is convicted in any of the trials in which he appears. According to this survey, enough voters, namely 6 percent, in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would turn their backs on Trump if convicted in court. And that would likely be enough to give Biden the victory.
But still a lot can happen in the election campaign in the United States. And so you have to take opinion polls with a big pinch of salt. But the coming year will at least be unprecedented when political campaigning is conducted both in courtrooms and in arenas. At least in Trump’s case.