It’s likely that the election interference (aka the “hush money”) case against Donald Trump currently underway in New York State court will be the only one of the cases against him concluded before the 2024 election.
That gives it an urgency it might otherwise not have.
The other three criminal cases facing the ex-President are all delayed due to legal maneuvers by Trump’s lawyers, so much so that they probably will not go to trial until after this fall’s election, if at all. Should Trump win the presidency, two of the three remaining cases will be dismissed by his choice of attorney general.
The one remaining case, in Georgia state court, has been dogged by controversy that seems to be delaying it endlessly.
That makes it incredibly important that the prosecutors in New York get their case right.
Hearings will resume on Thursday in the trial expected to last six weeks or longer. Any verdict will ultimately hinge on the jury buying the prosecutors’ case that Trump and his associates falsified business records in order to cover up his affair with porn star Stormy Daniels in furtherance of a conspiracy to prevent news of the scandal from losing Trump the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton.
That’s a mouthful.
And now the hope that the former president will ever be held accountable for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election hangs on the outcome.
As does our democracy.
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