When it comes to analysis of Donald Trump’s growing legal liabilities, the conservative press has succumbed to something resembling a state of denial.
In right-leaning media venues, the focus is on the cosmic unfairness of it all. They lament the degree to which prosecutors have stretched the statutes to ensnare the former president. They mourn the precedents that are being set. They fear the prospect of criminalizing otherwise-banal political conduct. And they fret over the Pandora’s Box that we risk opening.
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