It's over

Former prosecutor and CNN contributor (don't hold that against him) Elie Honig: "Somebody Needs to Tell the Manhattan DA’s Office That the Trump Case Is Over."

It’s over. Yes, there are legal issues that the parties and the courts can unwind if they care to — Trump’s immunity claim, first and foremost. But this case won’t carry on while he’s president, as the DA’s office has apparently recognized, and maybe not even while he’s president-elect.

The Manhattan DA's office will stretch this out as long as they can until January 20th and then unceremoniously dump the charges on a Friday night to minimize the news coverage.

By the way, Honig agrees with the notion that lawfare backfired and helped Trump:

Beyond that, Bragg’s charge was such an obvious stretch that it played right into Trump’s persecution narrative on the campaign trail. Trump’s serial prosecutions inarguably helped him emerge from the pack and win the Republican primary. There are too many factors to credit or blame any one of them for Trump’s showing in the 2024 general election, his best ever. But it’s clear now that the general populace was entirely unmoved by the hush-money case. Heck, in Manhattan itself — the scene of the crime! — Trump did five points better in 2024 than in 2020, moving from 12 percent to 17 percent of the vote. Trump gained more percentage points in Manhattan than he did across the entire country.

It’s over now; Bragg’s case will never reach a conclusion, and Trump is headed back to the White House. He’s not getting sentenced now or in 2029. The DA has done enough damage. It’s time to let it go.

All that effort to paint Trump as a felon and the Left won't even have that.