What are the political and legal implications of this prosecution? well, they are enormous and deeply intertwined. let's start with the politics of it all. donald trump is going to use this indictment to put rocket boosters under his campaign for the presidency. that might sound a bit old, but he is going to say that he is the victim of a witchhunt and a conspiracy by what he calls the deep state, the president and the deep state, the president and the fbi, the department ofjustice, working together to prevent him returning to the white house. the thing is, there is an audience in america for ...