You can already assume right-wing media will spin this into "Really? All you could get him for was a BJ?" Feels a bit like the late-night comedy of the Clinton impeachment.
Getting indictment of any sort can lead to larger ones.
Trump cannot be treated with like Al Capone. He has run as the anti-establishment candidate, and by god you better have a bulletproof case on him or you have just angered millions of people.
He literally won half the country, his rallies ALWAYS have huge turnsouts. This guy is a Napoleon or Caesar in the making, and New York has just given him something to boost his profile when it was failing against Desantis.
Donald Trump isn't Al Capone, that analogy does them both a disservice and distorts reality.
Donald Trump was literally president of the united states for 4 years, any prosecution has to be air fucking tight or the whole system collapses.
> He literally won half the country ...
Well that's not true, no matter how you slice it, or which election you look at.
In neither did he win more than 50% of the vote (2016 it was 46.1% of voters, compared to 48.2% who voted for Hillary - and in 2020 it was 46.8%, compared to the 51.3% for Joe).
And while that sounds tantalisingly close enough to half, it overlooks the fact that in those two elections, respectively, only 59% and then 70% of eligible voters (or 54% and 55% of age-and-citizenship-eligible-but-not-registered) actually voted.
So that means that you're looking at less than half of roughly 2/3's of the voting population -- a demographic that in turn is only around 3/4 of 'the country'.
He literally, therefore, won about 20% of US citizens, or 25% of eligible voters.
> ... his rallies ALWAYS have huge turnsouts.
That's neither true or compelling. Garry Glitter and Elvis used to have huge crowds.
Did Napoleon or Caesar also try to overthrow the democratically elected government when they lost the election?
This wasn't the loving display of affection that you make it out to be:
> The official description of the statue says that the float was created by artist Fabrizio Galli, whose past sculptures included satirical depictions of Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin.
“It’s a joke, but in fact he’s trying to destroy nations with the economy instead of nuclear missiles,” Mr Galli told the Italian media. “This is one of the strongest actions, let’s say, that powerful people like Trump can use.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
https://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-twitter-comparing-himse...
No, the Special Counsel’s investigation is not just the documents issue, though that was the case most in the news at the time the Special Counsel was assigned both DoJ Trump-connected criminal investigations once Trump declared his candidacy for 2024.
The issues assigned to the Special Counsel were:
(1) “whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification ofthe Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021” (excluding charges already being prosecuted and future “prosecutions of individuals for offenses they committed while physically present on the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021.”)
(2) the documents issue.
Other indictments are likely coming from other ongoing investigations.
No, you don’t know what the actual charges are.
You know the central focus of the investigation was a particular campaign finance fraud.
What the–reportedly more than 30–charges that have come out of the investigation are, is another question. What are they? We’ll see.