Arrest would deliver Trump a 2024 election ‘landslide’ – Musk

[Eric Berg]

If former US President Donald Trump is arrested next week he will win
the 2024 election in a “landslide,” Twitter owner Elon Musk predicted
on Saturday. The billionaire was responding to a Fox News clip
discussing the possibility of the former president being “handcuffed”
and processed through the New York City court system.

“If this happens, Trump will be re-elected in a landslide victory,”
Musk tweeted, a reply to a similar – though less emphatic – prediction
from Canadian lawyer @thevivafrei.

The opinion that this scenario might propel the former reality TV star
back into the White House appears to be shared by Trump himself. He
alerted his followers to his impending arrest on Truth Social on
Saturday, urging them to “protest, take our nation back!” He further
claimed that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is discussing
measures to deal with protests by Trump supporters, should he be
arrested.

The predicted indictment of the former president, on what are expected
to be campaign finance violation charges, would be the first of its
kind in US history. Even former President Richard Nixon was not
prosecuted after he resigned from office following the Watergate
scandal.

Trump’s lawyer has accused prosecutor Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan
district attorney, of having “weaponized” the legal system, leveraging
a misdemeanor charge that federal prosecutors did not deem worthy of
prosecution into a felony. If he is found guilty before November 2024,
it could potentially keep him from the White House.

When the FBI staged a nighttime raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida
estate last summer, the New York Times expressed concern that the
agency’s heavy-handed tactics would galvanize the former president’s
base, with the resulting electoral turmoil not only allowing
Republicans to seize control of Congress, but handing Trump the 2024
nomination on a silver platter.

While Republicans did take back the House of Representatives, the
midterms fell short of the partisan rout expected by many on the
right, with the Senate remaining in Democratic hands. Although
incumbent President Joe Biden’s approval rating hovers near record
lows, even among those in his own party, most polls pitting him
against Trump have Biden leading by a handful of points. However, an
arrest could easily push Trump over the top, according to Musk and
many others.

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