Analysis: Iowa Voters Choose Trump Despite Indictments
thegavoice.comLegacy media has called Donald Trump’s win in the Iowa Caucus a “landslide victory” and a “historic win.” Theoretically both statements are true: Trump did beat his two closest opponents, Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis and Trump’s own former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley by nearly 30 points. And the win was historic in the sense that no other failed president has chosen to run again after being voted out of office.
It’s also historic in that Trump is currently under indictment in several criminal and civil court cases. His fraud trial just ended in New York last week.
His latest defamation trial with E. Jean Carroll, the Emmy-winning writer Trump was found liable of raping, began Jan. 16. While Trump challengers DeSantis and Haley moved on to further campaigning, Trump was sitting in a New York courtroom listening to his attorney, Alina Habba, say that Trump’s rape victim was seeking attention as a defense against her client’s repeated defamation of Carroll. “She likes her new brand,” Habba said of Carroll.
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