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There is also the endless \u2018lawfare\u2019 being waged against Trump, and any fair-minded American is repulsed by it. The absurd circus in the New York civil \u2018fraud\u2019 case alerted the center-right and center-left voters that the Empire State is no place for Republicans or even moderate Democrats to do business if they fall afoul of the political interest of that state\u2019s Attorney General Leticia James and end up in the courtroom of a judge from the left. That charade was bad for every business in New York.<\/p>\n
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is about to increase Trump\u2019s lead with Bragg\u2019s joke of a criminal prosecution. Listen to former Southern District of New York Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy\u2019s podcast, \u2018The McCarthy Report,\u2019 to get the honest-to-goodness assessment of this ridiculous prosecution. Now, I don\u2019t think Trump can get a fair trial from the presiding judge there either or from the Manhattan jury pool, so I expect a conviction unless one courageous juror with a brain gets on the jury and simply refuses to be part of this Big Apple witch-hunt.<\/p>\n
But I also don\u2019t think a conviction in Manhattan will in any way hurt Trump. Legacy media is betting everything on a conviction arriving on the bizarre theory Bragg cooked up actually hurting Trump, but they don\u2019t get out much from their Blue Bubbles. \u2018Normies\u2019 know what\u2019s going on here. And they don\u2019t like it, no matter how often NBC and MSNBC hosts and \u2018analysts\u2019 scream at them that they must DQ the former president if he\u2019s convicted, even if it is a show trial in a kangaroo court. They are all lefties\u2014all of them\u2014and they don\u2019t understand that the public generally understands\u2014and loathes\u2014\u2019lawfare.\u2019<\/p>\n
7-4 is a good line for Trump right now. I suspect it will even be better in May and then pop more with his VP choice. Which leads to the key question.<\/p>\n
When do Democrats panic (if they haven\u2019t already?) The obviously infirm president who can\u2019t even do an interview with Stephen Colbert without former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton flanking him and propping him up, is fading in real time. But no one has stepped out yet asking for an \u2018open convention\u2019 which will be the \u2018Go!\u2019 signal to California Governor Gavin Newsom and many others in the wings. (The GOP\u2019s nightmare is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as the Democratic nominee, with VP Harris sticking in the #2 position.)<\/p>\n
The polls are great for Trump and awful for Biden. The cake seems baked absent some extraordinary event and a Manhattan show trial isn\u2019t going to be such an event no matter the result.<\/p>\n
Democrats gavel in their Chicago convention on August 19. I don\u2019t know if Ladbrokes has opened a line yet on whether somebody other than Biden is the actual Democrat nominee come, but if I was in England, I\u2019d be stopping by to place some quid on \u2018somebody else\u2019 right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hugh Hewitt is one of the country\u2019s leading journalists of the center-right. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University\u2019s Fowler School of Law since 1996, where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990, and it is today syndicated to hundreds of stations and outlets across the country every Monday through Friday morning. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and this column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcast, and this column previews the lead story that will drive his radio show today.<\/p>\n\n
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