Trump's legal strategy makes a lot of noise, but it hasn't solved his problems in court

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Trump’s self-portrayal as a martyr appears to have cemented his hold on the Republican presidential nomination, but it hasn't helped his legal woes.

As he battles criminal prosecutors and civil suits in four jurisdictions, former President Trump is relying on three tactics: denounce, disrupt and delay. In the short run, that may be good politics; Trump’s self-portrayal as a martyr appears to have cemented his hold on the Republican presidential nomination. But as a legal strategy, it’s been a bust. Trump has denounced prosecutors as thugs, judges as unfair and his indictments as illegitimate, which hasn’t solved any of his problems in court.

Trump’s lawyers have filed a motion arguing that his effort to overturn Joe Biden’s election was a legitimate exercise of his authority as president and that he should be “absolutely immune from prosecution.” Unsurprisingly, prosecutors have disagreed, arguing that Trump’s attempts to persuade states to change their election results were acts he undertook as a political candidate, not as chief executive of the federal government.

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