Stormy Daniels Case To Hurt Trump In General Election

Just when we had nearly forgotten about her, Stormy Daniels is back in the news.

Reminders of an alleged affair could prompt independent voters to remember that the Trump show is a very sordid circus indeed. I Photo: Thomas Hawk Flickr

A New York judge, Juan Merchan, rejected Donald Trump’s plea to dismiss criminal charges against him stemming from a hush-money payment he allegedly made to the porn star in 2016, as written by Dave Seminara in an opinion piece for The Telegraph.

The decision from a Colombian immigrant Trump derided as a "Trump-hating judge" paves the way for what will be the first criminal prosecution of a former US President. This judgment is a setback to the ex-President’s legal strategy.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg charged the presumptive Republican nominee with 34 counts of falsifying business records, a relatively obscure felony in a liberal state where undocumented immigrants are permitted to assault police officers and flee town, while flipping off the paparazzi on their way out.

The case won’t dent Trump’s standing among the MAGA faithful, who’d follow him to Guyana to gulp pitchers of cyanide-laced Kool-Aid if he asked them to.

But we're effectively in general election territory now as Nikki Haley’s campaign is about as alive as a fish flopping about on deck.

Even if the Stormy case is, as Trump’s lawyers have claimed, "a discombobulated package of politically motivated charges," the sight of him in the dock and reminders of an alleged affair could prompt independent voters to remember that the Trump show is a very sordid circus indeed.

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