In one way, it’s a rather frightening precedent for a president to so clearly and directly force the prosecutions of his political foes, as Donald Trump has now done with both former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
(Try as Trump’s allies might, there is no comparing his role in these prosecutions with Joe Biden’s relationship to Trump’s indictments. It’s a far more direct line.)
But in another way, it will at least be instructive.
After spending years trying to force legal peril on his foes and being thwarted by aides who apparently thought better of it, Trump is finally going to be forced to pony up with actual evidence. And he will have to pony up in a forum that has been far less favorable to his claims than the political arena: courts of law.
Indeed, it seems quite possible these prosecutions will fail. And predictably so, given that appears to have been the overwhelming conclusion of the more experienced prosecutors who first looked at these cases.
But what would that mean?
This could actually backfire on Trump by laying bare the nakedness and politicization of these prosecutions.
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