“It sometimes seems that Trump’s superpower is to have been accused of so many transgressions that no single one can change the public’s perception of him,” benwallacewells writes.
and for his actions surrounding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot), the basic story has mostly been told in the press, even if it has never before been presented in a court. Perhaps more significantly, Trump has faced two impeachments, and countless accusations of wrongdoing. He fomented an insurrection. And yet his approval rating and political position are, on the whole, pretty much unchanged.
But that might underestimate how much even a small amount of tractability could matter. The margins in American politics are tiny right now. Trump first won the Presidency, and then lost it, because of shifts of tens of thousands of voters in a few critical states. Earlier this year,briefly threatened Trump’s position as Republican standard-bearer because of Trump’s insistence on relitigating the 2020 election and his promotion of subpar Republican candidates willing to do the same.
If the Carroll case is a first glimpse at how Trump plans to fight any upcoming trials, then his team has got off to a rocky start. Trump wavered on basic strategy; he told Sky News that he would likely fly to New York to testify, but on the same day his courtroom lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said that he would not mount a defense, essentially counting on the jury to find that Carroll had not met her burden of proof.
But what the Carroll case has begun to suggest is that the gravity of these charges may be difficult to stage-manage away, or to strategize against: rape, election fraud, sedition. When accusations of this magnitude move from the realm of political ads to detailed accounts on the witness stand, they may become harder to ignore. One way to read the politics around Trump right now is that, with partisan allegiances so entrenched, nothing matters.
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