{"id":2245214,"date":"2024-05-15T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-opinion-editor-upset-lawfare-trials-arent-kneecapping-trump-as-intended\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:52:51","slug":"wapo-opinion-editor-upset-lawfare-trials-arent-kneecapping-trump-as-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-opinion-editor-upset-lawfare-trials-arent-kneecapping-trump-as-intended\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Opinion Editor Disappointed Lawfare Trials Aren&#8217;t Undermining Trump as Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-opinion-editor-upset-lawfare-trials-arent-kneecapping-trump-as-intended%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2245214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Washington \u2063Post&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapos-shipley-hand-selected-hamas-cartoon-he-pulled-amid-woke-blowback-cartoonist-ramirez-says\/\" title=\"WaPo's Shipley Hand-Selected Hamas Cartoon He Pulled Amid Woke Blowback, Cartoonist Ramirez Says\">opinion\u2063 editor<\/a>, Alexi McCammond,\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-nonveteran-to-head-bidens-veterans-affairs-dept\/\" title=\"Senate Confirms Nonveteran To Head Biden\u2019s Veterans Affairs Dept\">expressed disappointment<\/a> that the\u2063 Democrats&#8217; legal actions against former President Donald \u200cTrump have not significantly impacted his popularity, despite hindering his campaign activities. The trials aim\u200c to hinder Trump&#8217;s \u200bre-election efforts and tarnish his image\u2062 to bolster\u2063 President Biden&#8217;s standing with voters. However, progress towards these\u2063 goals\u2063 has been slower than desired, prompting a sense of urgency among Democrats.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s opinion editor Alexi McCammond expressed dismay over why Democrats\u2019 lawfare trials haven\u2019t fully kneecapped former President Donald Trump after a new poll shows Trump clobbering President Joe Biden in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">key swing states<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow in the world is Trump\u2019s trial not hurting him?\u201d a clueless McCammond posed in her headline. \u201cHow is the former president still ahead of Biden in recent polls?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump has been trapped in a courtroom for most of the past month, depriving his MAGA fans of more frequent campaign rallies and events,\u201d McCammond writes. \u201cYet fresh polling shows that the trial hasn\u2019t hurt Trump\u2019s 2024 reelection bid, nor has it helped President Biden look better to voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCammond confirmed the lawfare trials being waged against the former president serve two purposes \u2014 neither of which involve \u201cjustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first is to interfere in the election by keeping Trump off the campaign trail not interacting with voters. The second is to assassinate Trump\u2019s character to boost the corrupt Biden\u2019s likability among voters who have soured on him as inflation worsens, international proxy wars rage on, and the southern border continues to be overwhelmed by illegal immigrants \u2014 including dozens on the FBI\u2019s terror watchlist. <\/p>\n<p>Neither goal is happening \u201cas quickly as might be helpful,\u201d The Washington Post\u2019s Alexandra Petri laments.  Her comments reflect the urgency among the left for a Trump conviction and sentence as soon as possible since, despite the left\u2019s astonishing destruction of U.S. rule of law, Biden is still \u201cnot more popular than the guy who stands accused of paying off a porn star to keep quiet about having sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly having an affair is not a crime, nor is allegedly paying someone to not discuss it publicly. <\/p>\n<p>For now, the left\u2019s intentions have fallen short of their goals, with a New York Times\/Siena College <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/15\/republicans-need-to-chase-ballots-from-every-low-turnout-voter-who-polls-for-trump\/\">poll finding<\/a> Trump leading Biden overall in a head-to-head match-up among registered voters 48-42 and 49-43 among likely voters. Trump has also made significant inroads with Hispanic voters and voters between the ages of 18-29. <\/p>\n<p>As Trump manages to keep his head well above water, Democratic operatives like Judge Juan Merchan \u2014 who oversees the Manhattan case \u2014 have bolstered their efforts to extract the intended consequences of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/15\/dragging-trump-into-court-while-biden-campaigns-is-election-interference-regardless-of-verdict\/\">lawfare trials<\/a>. Merchan issued a gag order prohibiting Trump from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/14\/republicans-need-to-show-up-to-trumps-manhattan-lawfare-trial-every-day\/\">making entirely true statements<\/a> highlighting that, for example, Merchan is a Biden donor or that his daughter is a big-time Democratic operative with clients such as Russia-collusion hoaxer Adam Schiff. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an effort to hinder Trump\u2019s ability to defend himself in the court of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-circuit-breaker-on-election-night\/\" title=\"The question looms: just how does it come to be that three quarters of Republican and nearly one third of Democrat voters all believe that the election was stolen from Trump?\">public opinion<\/a> and curtail his ability to explain to voters who may be on the fence about his candidacy that the case was brought because of partisan motives. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s opinion editor, Alexi McCammond, laments Democrats&#8217; lawfare trials&#8217; failure to cripple ex-President Donald Trump, despite his lead over President Joe Biden in crucial swing states. In disbelief, McCammond questions, &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t Trump&#8217;s trial impacting him as expected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2245215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/50934678471_d9fa832c9f_k-e1715797084439.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/50934678471_d9fa832c9f_k-e1715797084439.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}