Trump indictment is political yet ‘only strengthens him’ politically? Both can’t be true

“Why are they even doing this,” a Kansas Republican asked me the other day, “when it’s only going to give him the nomination?” The “this” and “it” we were talking about was of courseDonald Trump’s most recent indictment, for allegedly stealing and stockpiling documents that detail some of our most sensitive military and nuclear secrets. The Department of Justice only got involved after Trump refused to surrender them to the National Archives, as required under the 1978 Presidential Records Act. Eventually, the Archives’ Office of the Inspector General sent a referral to the DOJ requesting that...