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After the rape trial of EJ Carroll, Republicans have increased doubts about the ex-US president’s eligibility.
Five million dollars personal injury compensation because of sexual abuse and defamation of the victim: For every ordinary politician, even in America, the moment would most likely now have come when ambitions have to be buried and resignations are due.
Unfortunately, when it comes to Donald Trump, one cannot be sure whether the most recent legal punch to the pit of the stomach is not adding to the absurd upward trend in which the ex-president finds himself, who wants to move back into the White House for the Republicans in two years. Above all, to take revenge on an America that, from his point of view, insulting his majesty, did not want to concede an election victory against Joe Biden in 2020.
Even after the criminal charges of covering up and incorrectly billing hush money payments to one Pornstars At the beginning of April, Trump’s poll numbers did not go down. On the contrary. Millions of small donors voted with the wallet and filled the accounts of the rich autocrat, who begs for dollars every day via email.
Donald Trump’s strategy is working
While incumbent Joe Biden is in the favor of the electorate despite the circumstances, according to good and forward-looking work, is constantly losing ground, Donald Trump is currently on top. His strategy of making all activities of the judiciary against him appear as a political punitive squad of sinister democrats has worked to some extent so far.
The outcome of the trial, which EJ Carroll fought bravely and which, for the first time, actually charges Trump with misdeeds Responsibility pulls, this constellation will not fundamentally change ad hoc.
But the next few weeks will show whether the semi-criminal ex-president still has the stable backing of millions. And whether the Republican establishment will continue to cowardly bite its tongue. And whether the polling perhaps only depicts an illusory world, while behind it the sales movements and doubts about the right-wing populist, who is only interested in himself, are becoming ever more massive.
Republicans: Trump’s name is associated with defeats
Republican elected officials have intuitively known for a long time that Trump is no longer a winner. Aside from his surprise 2016 win against Hillary Clinton the name Trump is almost always associated with momentous defeats for the “Grand Old Party”. But someone who, like Trump, only impresses a minority of the electorate while the majority turns away in horror, seriously cannot be a candidate for all of America.
Anyone who wants to avoid the “eternally greeting groundhog” in 2024 must therefore ensure that Trump finally becomes the right-of-centre voter who can still be reached with arguments ranging from reason to decency persona non grata becomes. A vote for Trump, that must be the guiding principle, is a lost vote in the fight for the White House.
There are first indications of a Trump blues. John Cornyn, conservative senator from Texas, says simply: “I don’t think Trump would be elected.” Shortly after the verdict in the EJ Carroll case, Bob Good, right-wing congressman from Virginia and hitherto loyal Trump supporter, demonstratively spoke out in favor of Florida governor Ron DeSantis as a presidential candidate. Asa Hutchinson, once governor of conservative Arkansas and like Trump too presidential candidatesees the jury’s verdict as “another example of unforgivable behavior by Donald Trump”.
Other legal prosecutions — his role in the 2021 storming of the Capitol, his attempts to retrospectively fudge the 2020 Georgia election results in his favor, and the theft of sensitive assets State secrets – can add up to such a critical mass over the next few months that Trump simply seems too toxic to remain a candidate for the highest office of state.
All Trump opponents in the race for the candidacy are, by definition, doomed to walk the tightrope until next year’s primaries. They must clearly differentiate themselves from Trump in terms of content and style. Without doing so but its voters voters to hit in the head. The most promising rival, Ron DeSantis, will soon show whether this can succeed.
Verdict against Trump: sign of hope
But the judgment of New York points far beyond the pathetic billionaire. With EJ Carroll, an old woman has something of a partial decades after suffering an assault amends experience. The author was never about the money. The fact that Donald Trump dismissed her as a liar from the very beginning was like a second abuse for the 79-year-old. Her success, which is anything but a matter of course, is a sign of hope for many fellow sufferers who were not believed.
one appeals process, as Trump announced as expected, even legal experts close to him, such as Prof. Jonathan Turley, hardly see any chances. The verdict of the jury, which only took three hours to reach a unanimous assessment, was never able to take into account what the accused himself says about the allegations. The fact that Donald Trump stayed away from the process, despite struggling from the sidelines with hateful comments on social media, will be to the ex-president’s disadvantage in the next instance, according to Turley.
An urgent recommendation from the lead judge to the jury fits in with this. Lewis Kaplan guessed that jury after work, they may keep their identity a secret for a long time. Behind this is the crystal-clear fear that militant Trump supporters could take revenge on them in the form of vigilantism.
This potential danger alone leaves Donald Trump as absolute for the office of President of the United States of America unfit appear.
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