For the judge and the prosecutor, the case against Trump is that he stole the election from Hillary in 2016. It’s possible that all of the jurors voted for Hillary, so it may be easy to get them to find Trump guilty, no matter how flimsy the legal case is. Merchan and Bragg don’t care if the conviction is overturned on appeal and they get admonished because that may be a year or two after the election.
That may be the underlying intent but I fail to see anything about this trial that’s new. Seems to be a re-airing of dirty laundry and recycling of old news. They needed new material. A conviction here is likely to elicit a collective yawn, and nothing more.
Trump has been brilliant in shaping the overall narrative and exposing the trial as a political witch hunt. If polls are any indication, most people see it the same way.