Donald Trump is going to try to turn his imputation around and use it to his advantage stoking anger among his main supporters, who have labeled the decision of the Judiciary as “anti-American.” However, this will also push Republicans who are tired of the controversies surrounding the former president to look for another candidate for the 2024 elections.

Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for the alleged payment of a bribe to the porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 campaign, thus becoming the first former US president to face criminal chargescoinciding with his candidacy for the White House again.

The impeachment of a former president is unprecedented in the history of the United States, although his supporters see it as “another motivation to support Trump in the 2024 primaries.” “They have done no more than harass him,” denounced Gregg Hough, chairman of the Republican Party in Belknap County, New Hampshire, who also predicted that the accusation will boost Trump’s support ‘to the moon’if he fails to pass a sentence.

Trump already spoke at the beginning of March of the possibility of his being charged, and raised around two million dollars to defend himself against his “imminent arrest”. In addition, in a statement on Thursday, Trump called the accusation a “witch huntpolitical persecution and electoral interference at the highest level in history”, without providing evidence.

Thus, the former US president He has asked his followers to “collaborate” financially to help him in his legal defense and has warned that his case “will come back to haunt Joe Biden en masse.” “Never before in the history of our nation has this been done,” Trump denounced in a statement published on his social network, Truth Social, in which he accused Biden’s Democratic Party of “using Justice as a weapon to punish a political opponent.”

In this way, Trump has already used this imputation, which arrives in the middle of the campaign to be chosen as the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, to lash out at the democrats for what he calls “political persecution and election interference,” while also throwing a dart squarely at Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, whose office launched the investigation into the silence payments of porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. .

In this sense, he has accused Bragg, who has received hundreds of threats in recent days, of to have been “hand-picked and funded” by Democratic tycoon George Soros, and doing “dirty work for Joe Biden,” instead of fighting crime in New York City.

Messages similar to those that led to the assault on the Capitol

The words of the former president evoke the messages that led to the assault on the Capitol in 2021. Now, in his statement, he makes a final call to his supporters and the Republican Party to “beat” Bragg and Biden, and to “drive every last one of these corrupt Democrats out of their offices to make America great again.” In a second message, Trump likens his indictment to an “attack” on the country and its “free and fair elections.”

Possible financial boost to Trump

Also, within hours of breaking the news, Trump has sent a clear email to a fundraising group called the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, where has asked his followers to make “a contribution, of any amountto defend the movement of the endless witch hunt and win the White House in 2024″.

The indictment will likely encourage his most ardent grassroots supporters to donate, political analysts and donors tell Reuters news agency, giving him give Trump a financial boost for the first quarter of the year. “Trump’s fundraising will skyrocket,” said Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist in Washington.

Republicans call impeachment “un-American”

For his part, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, whose candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections in the United States is assumed, has labeled “un-American” the decision of the Judiciary to indict Trump.

Along the same lines, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, has affirmed that the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, has “irreparably damaged” the country to “intervene” in the presidential elections, and has assured that the “American people” will not stand for it.

“My president is innocent and is the only one standing in the way of these modern tyrantsjust like our founding fathers did, to protect each one of us from evil,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent ally of the former president, said on her Twitter account.

In addition, Senator Ted Cruz has written on his Twitter account: “The Democratic Party’s hatred of Donald Trump knows no bounds. The ‘essence’ of this political persecution is pure rubbish. This is unprecedented and a catastrophic escalation in the instrumentalization of the justice system.”

“We all know that the ‘Republicans in Name Only’ (RINO) are secretly happy about the indictment, but we know that the fascist left will not stop against Trump. They are power hungry and will do anything to crush his political opponents,” the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted. His other son, Eric Trump, has called the accusation “third world conduct.”

The Chairman of the Judiciary of the House of Representatives of the United States, Jim Jordan, has opined that it is “outrageous”, and the Republican congressman Steve Scalise has described the accusation as “outrageous” and “false”, with the sole objective to “attack political opponents”.

Also, John Feehery, a Republican strategist, has described this case as “silly”compared to the other investigations weighing on the Trump campaign, including that of allegations that he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

To win the party’s nomination, Trump will likely have to broaden the support of the republican electorate which is generally believed to is on your side no matter what, especially if the field of Republican candidates narrows in the coming months. “Of all the things Trump is accused of, this is not on the top 20 list,” Feehery said, noting that this “could be used against him by opponents of the former president.”

Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, has suggested that some Republicans may be persuaded by the allegations to endorse Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, or another potential candidate without Trump’s legal background, which has grown considerably since he left the White House in 2021. “It’s not good for Trump, although the question is how bad is it for Trump,” said Sabato, who has predicted that now “there could be multiple accusations, which would add problems.”

Trump has accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, of doing bidding from the Democratic Party in an effort to stop his run for the White House. At a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, Trump compared the criminal investigations against him to a “horror show of Stalinist Russia”.

This is how the prosecution will use

Now, people close to Trump have said his campaign would seek to frame the impeachment as proof that all prosecutions, including his two congressional impeachments, are unwarranted attempts by the “deep state” to undermine it him and his followers.

Sam DeMarco, chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Party in Pennsylvania, has said Republicans would view the Manhattan impeachment as “political” given that federal prosecutors reviewed the Daniels case. in 2018 and decided not to impeach Trumpalthough it is Justice Department policy not to impeach a president.

Trump has defied predictions of his demise numerous times since he launched his White House bid in 2015. Sometimes called the ‘Teflon Don’ for his record of shirking accountability, Trump once bragged that he could gun down someone in the middle of Manhattan and not face the consequences.

The former US president defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, despite the appearance of the infamous ‘Access Hollywood’ tape in which he made vulgar comments about women. And in 2018, when he was president, paid no apparent political price for the ‘Stormy Daniels’ case, even when his lawyer went to prison for arranging the payments and pointed the finger at Trump.