"Legal problems could seriously impede Trump's ability to campaign effectively for the presidency," Dr. Nicholas Waddy, a political analyst and associate professor of history at SUNY Alfred, told Sputnik. "The main objective of Democratic/establishment 'lawfare' against Trump is to render him politically impotent. This could indeed happen. Legal issues will dominate the news, and Trump may eventually find himself incarcerated, gagged, or placed under house arrest. None of this, however, will dent Republicans' love for Trump. Quite the contrary. (…) Democrats fear Trump politically, and thus it makes sense that they would want to wound him via prosecution. On the other hand, most Democrats in the know would prefer that Trump is the nominee, because they already consider him unelectable. Prosecution is their insurance policy, as it were."
"In my view, Democrats and liberals will continue to make free use of law enforcement agencies and the justice system to intimidate, silence, and punish their adversaries," said Waddy. "Given the tameness and pliability of DC juries, from the Democrats' perspective, the potential for adversarial prosecution of Republicans is virtually unlimited. Governor Newsom in California speculated that Governor DeSantis in Florida could be prosecuted for 'kidnapping' for helping migrants to reach California instead of Florida. He wasn't joking. Leftists regard all Republicans and conservatives as criminals, ipso facto, and soon enough they may move against many more of us."