The indictment former president Donald Trump assures that his legal woes will be the focal point of the Republican presidential primary contest, with the possibility he will have to shuttle between courtrooms and the campaign trail. They will also likely be a central element of the 2024 general election, regardless of who is on the ballot, further dividing a politically polarized country.
The Wall Street Journal reports the charges against Trump for mishandling classified documents come as members of each political party already view the others as a threat to the nation, polling shows. Republicans will see the case as a Democratic president persecuting their leading figure, prompting many GOP voters to demand a strong response from their presidential candidates, while Democrats will view Republicans as standing by an alleged criminal.
Trump will run for the White House with the case and a federal trial hanging over him. In fact, he faces the prospect of multiple trials.
Trump has already been charged by New York prosecutors in a hush-money case, and remains under scrutiny in a federal probe of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as well as a Georgia investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump has denied wrongdoing in all those cases.
How long the documents case could drag out is unclear.
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