The Washington Examiner’s Byron York suggested the weaponization of the Department of Justice against President-elect Donald Trump “certainly helped” in his 2024 election victory, contending each indictment had an inverse effect on the public.
Following Trump’s win against Vice President Kamala Harris, special counsel Jack Smith began efforts to dismiss the Jan. 6 criminal case in Washington, D.C., to which U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to dismiss it Monday afternoon. Additionally, an appellate court on Tuesday granted Smith’s request to drop his appeal against Trump in the classified documents criminal case.
When York, the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent, was asked if he believed these legal battles had any role in Trump’s victory, York pointed to how polling data “kept going up” with each legal pursuit made against the former…
