If former US President Donald Trump is arrested subsequent week, he’ll win the 2024 election in a “landslide victory,” Twitter proprietor Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday in response to a Fox Information clip discussing the opportunity of the previous president being “handcuffed” and processed via the New York Metropolis court docket system. 

“If this occurs, Trump shall be re-elected in a landslide victory,” Musk mentioned within the tweet, a reply to an analogous – although much less emphatic – prediction from Canadian lawyer @thevivafrei. 

The opinion that this state of affairs may propel the previous actuality TV star again into the White Home will not be an unusual one, and seems to be shared by Trump himself. He alerted his followers to his impending arrest on Fact Social on Saturday, urging them to “protest, take our nation again!” His submit highlights that the Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace is discussing safety for such an eventuality, maybe suggesting that the authorities could also be cautious of the response of Trump’s followers.  

The anticipated indictment of the previous president on what are anticipated to be marketing campaign finance violation fees could be the primary of its sort in US historical past. Even former President Richard Nixon was not prosecuted after he resigned from workplace following the Watergate scandal.  

Trump’s lawyer has accused prosecutor Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district legal professional, of getting “weaponized” the authorized system, leveraging a misdemeanor cost that federal prosecutors didn’t deem worthy of prosecution right into a felony. If he’s discovered responsible earlier than November 2024, it may probably maintain him from  the White Home. 

When the FBI staged a nighttime raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida property final summer season, the New York Occasions expressed concern that the company’s heavy-handed ways would impress the previous president’s base, with the ensuing electoral turmoil not solely permitting Republicans to grab management of Congress, however handing Trump the 2024 nomination on a silver platter.

Whereas Republicans did take again the Home of Representatives, the midterms fell wanting the partisan rout anticipated by many on the precise, with the Senate remaining in Democratic palms. Though incumbent President Joe Biden’s approval score hovers close to report lows, even amongst these in his personal celebration, most polls pitting him in opposition to Trump have Biden main by a handful of factors. An arrest may simply push Trump excessive, in response to Musk and plenty of others.

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