And this makes it much more likely that leftist Judge Merchan will jail Trump for a long sentence.
“And this makes it much more likely that leftist Judge Merchan will jail Trump for a long sentence.”
Well, we know Trump isn’t a flight risk so he won’t go to prison until all appeals are exhausted. That can take years. And if Trump is elected, he pardons himself and that ends it.
Problem, which was done intentionally was to sow doubt in Republicans minds where the rats hope Trump will be replaced at the convention. Their narrative will be a moral equivalency between Biden and Trump where both candidates are asked to drop out and new blood introduced to the nation.
Perhaps Trump took the proposed debate speculating something like this would happen.
Then if lawfare was used against him the government’s corruption would be out there for the world to see.
I'm not so sure about that. The whole country saw Trump looking and sounding Presidential on stage - it's a lot harder to jail a recently visible, high profile politician on specious charges than it is to level such charges against a guy CNN/MSNBC viewers have not seen in a long time except in memes calling him a liar and a traitor.
Biden is now greatly weakened - and they might be stuck with him. Making Trump into a martyr at this time would be a spectacular error.
Their smarter option would be to coerce Merchan into dismissing the case because of the jury "error" - then they can still claim Trump is a convicted felon who got off on a technicality, and snidely suggest his wealth allowed him to rig the result in his favor, blunting Trump's own arguments about a rigged 2020 election.