prison and keeps from going broke. but lucky for trump, manipulating the legal system is something he has a lifetime of experience doing. as politico points out, he's mastered the ability to grind down the legal system to his advantage and now to his political advantage. quote, he has routinely turned what's obviously peril into what's actively fuel. effectively fuel. taki lg rosters of losses and willing them into somhing like wins. if not in a court of law, then in that of public opinion. it has worked and it continues to work. trump, after l, was at one of his weakest points politically until the first of his four arraignments last spring. ever since, his leg jeopardy and his politic viability have done little but go up together. deny, delay, and attack always ayhe victim, never stop undermining the system. he's not fighting the system. it seems sometimes so much as he's using it. he's fund-raising off it, he's