Eric Owens, a retired conservative lawyer, said Trump 'is clearly dragging the party [GOP] down with bad candidates.'
's midterm failures may have eroded the Republican support he was counting on to avoid a criminal conviction, according to one attorney.
Trump has long been reported to be planning an early 2024 presidential campaign announcement as a way to stave off potential prosecution from the numerous investigations mounting against him. His hope had purportedly been to ride a wave of midterm GOP success into the announcement, but with posting historically strong results over the last week, Trump's future as a Republican figurehead and his 2024 candidacy have been cast into doubt.numerous current and former attorneys and general legal experts about the situation facing Trump. Most said that his plan to avoid criminal prosecution by running for reelection would do him no good, as the various investigations arrayed against him are too far along.
One expert The Daily Beast spoke to, retired attorney and conservative Eric Owens, said that the situation is even worse for Trump than he might imagine, asnow have a potential motive for seeing him convicted and taken off the political battlefield. Above, Donald Trump appears at a 2016 campaign event. A former attorney and conservative Eric Owens believes that Republicans have strategic reasons to support a potential conviction of the former president following their disastrous midterm performances."I do think Trump believes he can avoid prosecution by running for president and causing delays," Owens said."That's another Trump strategy: Delay and run out the clock.
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