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... And what impact will this have?
(All quotes from OP's link)
For starters, it appears to be rallying his base.
It definitely is a rallying point for the anti-Trumpists as well, and I can see how some amount of moderate Republicans that were tepid Trump voters will turn on him. But, then again, a lot of those people turned in 2020.
It may be the case that some perceive him as perhaps rightfully guilty, but that the charges were trumped up, and that this is an example of selective prosecution for the purpose of furthering the political goals of Democrats, resulting in even some of those who went cold on him in 2020 to interpret this differently and feel the need to go vote for Trump...
I suppose a lot of this will come down to how well it's all spun.
LOlL, well, yeah, you do. I've followed the Imran Khan thing a bit and he may have gotten it worse.
One of the other things to say about the Khan affair, though, was that this was made possible by the CIA..!