it's funny, if any of the talking heads on the right actually stopped to think about this charade for a moment, they'd have to come to the following conclusions, as my friend mike puts it:
1) though t**** is not being charged with merely lying about an affair, for the >99% of americans who will not be familiar with either the wording or traditional use of NY felony falsifying public records law, the case will be relatively easy to characterize as the "weaponization" of the criminal justice system for political purposes. just about everybody who commits adultery lies about it. the public knew trump was a playboy because he bragged about it. so the right-wing media narrative will have some resonance.
2) if that's right, we know this case is almost certainly not political in the sense that it's not a calculated effort by t****'s political enemies to bring him down. if anything, it seems likely to consolidate support for trump, who is always playing the victim. and if he can credibly play the victim (to those who are not well informed about the law or who are well informed but see political advantage in playing along) with respect to the ny indictment, then he will be better positioned to cry politics again should an indictment in georgia or from special counsel jack smith follow it.
3) instead, if this is a political effort (it almost certainly isnt, in the narrow sense fox would like it to be), the effort is a bit more devious--much like the democratic strategy in the 2022 mid-terms. we know, nationwide, tr**** is the weakest possible candidate for the republican nomination in 2024. that's not to say he's the least popular amongst likely republican voters today. he may even be the most popular. but it is to say that unless t**** can go way further to defraud the public than he was able, as sitting president, in 2020, he cannot and will not be elected in a nationwide multi-party election. it will not happen. there are so many rational republicans and independents who just vomit at the thought of this guy now. and so the democratic strategy, knowing this, in the 2022 midterms was to boost the t****ers--and it was reasonably successful. the house should have been a landslide for repubs; it wasn't. repubs should have taken the senate; they didn't. and thus what? if there's a strategy here, it's to boost t****, in exactly the way fox and the more conservative outlets are doing. and it just may work.
4) but of course, bragg isn't actually thinking in third-order terms like those. the real "political" strategy here is just to make it a little more palatable to bring the more serious charges for which t**** really should be facing prison--for treason, for inciting an insurrection, for wilfully withholding classified documents, for threatening various public officials to engage in fraud, etc.
in any event, have a think before you spew.