The various cases against Donald Trump “aren’t a distraction preventing people from assessing him,” tnyCloseRead writes. “They provide an almost encyclopedic guide to his political and personal character.”
“How does this indictment affect his candidacy?” Bill Hemmer, of Fox News, asked the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley last week. The candidacy in question was, of course, that of former President Donald Trump.
Haley is right that the cases, criminal and civil, are going to keep on coming. The District of Columbia is where Smith is pursuing his January 6th case, while in Florida he has brought a thirty-eight-count indictment alleging that Trump, with the help of an employee, Waltine Nauta, retained sensitive documents in violation of the Espionage Act. Last Friday, Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding, set a trial date of May 20, 2024—a day before the Kentucky and the Oregon primaries.
Judging from the witnesses who have been called, both Smith’s and Willis’s January 6th investigations are looking at the “fake electors scheme.” This was, allegedly, a Trump-team plan to introduce “alternative” slates of electors, when Congress assembled on January 6th, for a number of states that President Joe Biden won; Vice-President Pence would then refuse to count the real votes or, at least, adjourn the session, claiming that the states were in dispute.
The calendar is getting crowded. Perhaps January 6th trials in Georgia or D.C. can be squeezed in between the Florida trial and the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, in July. The one date that can’t be erased from Trump’s calendar is Election Day, at least not without the help of Republican primary voters. A felony conviction does not prevent anyone from running for the Presidency, or from winning it.
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