Trump/Biden. AP
Reactions to the indictment against Trump
Strategist: Biden is doing best to keep quiet about the indictment
Donald Trump responded to the federal indictment by once again launching repeated attacks on President Joe Biden and the Justice Department.
Strategists and analysts NBC News spoke with believe the best strategy for Biden is not to speak out about Trump's legal troubles.
The allegation that Biden is orchestrating a political witch hunt is a cornerstone of Trump's defense strategy, said Rick Wilson, a political consultant for the anti-Trump campaign organization The Lincoln Project.
- It is in a way an unsolvable problem for Biden, because if he denies it, the denial becomes an unequivocal admission in the ears of (Trump's hardline supporters).
According to Democratic strategist Maria Cardona, it comes down to a simple motto: when your opponent is destroying himself, take a step back.
A good political method is to "never interrupt a good story", says another party strategist.
Image from Mar-A-Lago/Donald Trump. TT
Analysis: Trump seems to have known exactly what he was doing – but why did he do it?
The indictment against Donald Trump, which became public on Friday night, paints the picture of a man who knew full well he was wrong to have secret documents in his home and who went to great lengths to cover up his actions. That's what The Atlantic's David A Graham writes in an analysis.
The big question, according to Graham, is why the secret documents found in Trump's residence were so important to him.
"Perhaps the trial will finally explain why he took such risks to hold on to some papers that he then handled so carelessly and kept so carelessly," he writes.
Danish TV2's US correspondent Jesper Steinmetz also says that Trump seems to have known exactly what he was doing. He says the prosecution is unprecedented in US history.
- If he is convicted of this, he is a heinous criminal who contributed to harming his country, regardless of whether he intended to do so or not, he says.
CNN reporter Paula Reid, who has been covering the investigation for a long time, mentions a detail that makes her "drop her jaw". It concerns the fact that, according to the prosecutors, Trump had secret documents on a stage in the Mar-a-Lago ballroom - a place where several events were held at the same time.
Document boxes in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. AP
Experts disagree on what effect the prosecution will have in the election
The historic federal indictment against Donald Trump undermines his chances of success in the election, says Jan Hallenberg, professor emeritus at the Foreign Policy Institute.
- The last time he was indicted, he received increased support from the Republicans, but I very much doubt that he will benefit from this indictment in the long term, he tells TT.
Dag Blanck, professor of North American studies at Uppsala University, is of a different opinion.
- After the previous indictment in New York, we saw that he rose in public opinion, it will surely happen now as well, he says to DN.
Trump's core voters support him through thick and thin, and there seems to be no line he can cross to alienate them, according to Blanck.
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