Peter Baker on the Georgia indictment of Trump

Peter Baker’s analysis in the N.Y. Times. “The Georgia indictment, powerful as it is in its language, has been priced into the market, as the Wall Street types would put it. …

“’The accumulated indictments are kind of a white noise for voters,’ said Sarah Longwell, a Republican political consultant who has organized opposition to Mr. Trump and conducts weekly focus groups with voters. ‘They can’t tell the difference between Georgia and Jack Smith because it all blurs together in one long news cycle of Trump’s-in-trouble.’

“This speaks volumes about how much Mr. Trump has transformed America in the eight years since he first ran for the White House. The nation once recoiled at presidential candidates caught driving under the influence or swiping lines in a speech without credit. Now one of the two major parties has not ruled out a front-runner charged with conspiring to subvert democracy, endangering national security, obstructing justice and falsifying records of hush money to a pornographic film star. …

“While the general facts are not contested, some of the cases are built on legal arguments that may end up not persuading a jury. If Mr. Trump is acquitted, he will trumpet the verdict as an I-told-you-so vindication.”

Read the whole piece (as one should do with all of his).

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