Donald Trump Is Not the Victim of ‘Lawfare.’ He’s a Crook.
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Julian Zelizer: Republicans were reluctant to accept Donald Trump's nomination because he was obviously a crook. He says the suspicion with which they once viewed Trump's business career has dissipated. He is no longer a sleazy mobbed-up con artist but an innocent victim of overzealous prosecutors, he says. Zelizer says it is not unusual for politicians to get into legal trouble.
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Donald Trump Is Not the Victim of ‘Lawfare.’ He’s a Crook.
Republicans claim Donald Trump’s legal problems are the result of ‘lawfare,’ their term for alleged weaponization of the legal system. But Republicans knew full well Trump was a con artist with criminal friends before he won the party’s nomination.