Trump’s midterm scheme is too 'dumb' to work: ex-prosecutor

Trump’s midterm scheme is too 'dumb' to work: ex-prosecutor

President Donald Trump is toying with a "menacing" new strategy to meddle in the midterm elections, but as one former prosecutor wrote for New York Magazine, the idea is ultimately too "dumb" to function.Earlier this month, Trump phoned in for an interview with right-wing commentator Wayne Allyn Root. At one point in the conversation, Root suggested that Trump ought to declare a "national security emergency for elections," supposedly allowing hi…