President Donald Trump

It has become a popular saying in the new American politics that former President Donald Trump is a figure with enormous immunity in the face of traditional scandals, while it is considered a devastating blow to most politicians to leave no scratch on Trump, who easily withstood the slings and arrows of the 2016 presidential campaign and did not pay any noticeable price for it. “Access Hollywood” tape, not in exchange for its racism or even its general intellectual incoherence.

As the spokesman for a disaffected, “forgotten” people, this popular saying holds that Trump derives his strength from efforts to hold him accountable, as if trying to stop Trump means making him more popular and powerful than he was before.

The New York Times asked on the eve of the vote to impeach Trump in the House of Representatives in 2019, “Why are Democrats’ attempts to rein in Trump through impeachment making his presidency stronger,” and the Guardian newspaper wrote after Trump was acquitted by the Senate after an attempt to impeach him in 2021.

If Trump is convicted of any of the 34 charges against him, the first former president in American history to be criminally prosecuted could face up to 4 years in prison, and could even go to prison now if he continues to violate the gag order imposed by Judge Juan M. Merchan.

It is strange that the popular adage about Trump’s supposed immunity from scandal has become in the bloodstream of political discourse, at a time when the trial is underway and a clearly exhausted and frustrated Trump awaits his fate.

A majority of Americans, representing 54% in the latest opinion poll, believe that the secret funds trial and other investigations related to Trump to determine the extent of his violations of the law are “fair,” and 42% – according to another poll – say that Trump’s behavior in his trial in Manhattan was “mostly inappropriate.” “And 71% say, according to a third poll