This year, the American people will decide whether they want to reelect a man who has been found guilty of falsifying business records to hide a scheme that deprived voters of critical information in the 2016 election, which he ultimately won.
"It makes the election a referendum of the American people on Donald Trump's criminality," legal analyst Norm Eisen aptly said on “Pod Save America” Thursday night after the conviction.
But between now and the closing of the last poll in November, the country is in for a wild ride. For those who have actually been watching Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, it's abundantly clear that he isn't the campaigner he was in 2016. Today's Trump is more aggrieved, irascible, nonsensical, and inwardly focused. It's not, “Here's what I'll do for you”; it's, “Here's what I'll do to them.” Revenge is the point.
But when Trump first began promising his MAGA supporters, "I am your retribution," in March of 2023, he hadn't been indicted on a single charge yet.
It wasn't until a few weeks later that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made Trump the first current or former president of the United States to be criminally indicted. Then the indictments starting falling like dominoes: 37 felony counts for mishandling classified documents in June; four felony counts for trying to overturn the 2020 election in early August; the Georgia racketeering indictment a couple weeks later.
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