Doesn’t matter if the charges are legitimate, the point is the bad PR to try and effect the midterms.
And please don’t think that Republican “professional politicians” are immune from being stupid, sloppy or corrupt. They key word is “professional politician” be they Rat or GOP they all share the same notion to greater (Rat) or lessor ( maybe GOP) that they are indispensable & immune to the norms you and I have to follow. Didn’t he follow his father into that seat? That automatically puts my antenna up!
“doesn’t matter if the charges are legitimate”
Let’s ponder this for a bit in the larger context. That larger context is the one that always comes back to bite the schemers and the colluders. It’s what got Trump elected.