Cases against Trump take a hit politically, if not legally

Former President Donald Trump remains in legal peril to a degree without precedent for a major-party nominee, but the cases against him are falling apart politically.

What happens to Trump in court is the most important thing. But barring a conviction and sentence before Election Day, the 2024 presidential race will be tried in the court of public opinion.

That’s what makes former special counsel Robert Hur’s repeated assertions during sworn congressional testimony that he did not “exonerate” President Joe Biden in his classified documents investigation so significant.

The classified documents case against Trump is the most legally straightforward of the indictments he faces and is viewed by most relevant experts to be the strongest. 

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