Trump's election puts left's lawfare campaign on increasingly shaky ground

The campaign of lawfare used by the left in attempt to remove Donald Trump from the political stage once and for all went down to defeat for all intents and purposes on Tuesday, as Politico explains, though the final acts in the cases against him have yet to fully play out.

Now that Trump is poised for a White House return and in the wake of a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, it appears that the only way he will face any of the recriminations liberals wanted is if justice is somehow snatched away by unexpected means.

Trump's triumph

The landslide Electoral College and popular vote victory achieved by Trump on Tuesday was not just an example of democracy in action, it also signaled the likely end of the legal troubles that have plagued the president-elect throughout his 2024 campaign.

As Kyle Cheney and Erica Orden of Politico declared, “Donald Trump didn't just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail.”

Perhaps most notably, Trump's win will almost certainly undo the unyielding efforts of special counsel Jack Smith to prosecute -- and potentially jail -- him for alleged offenses related to the aftermath of the 2020 election.

It will also likely scuttle any further efforts to appeal this summer's dismissal of his other legal quest against Trump, the classified documents case that was overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon.

Not only has Trump vowed to fire Smith from his post “within two seconds” of taking office, he would almost certainly select someone to lead the Justice Department who would be predisposed to dropping all pending cases against the commander in chief, something the special counsel already seems to have set in motion himself.

State cases also in jeopardy

Though Trump will soon have the power to influence how his federal cases proceed, some pundits have raised questions about the impact his election will have on the various state-level matters in which he remains embroiled.

Trump's Georgia election interference case is currently on life support, given the disruptions and delays caused by the emergence of an alleged conflict of interest involving Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the special prosecutor she hired to oversee the case -- someone to whom she was romantically linked.

Perhaps of greater interest is Trump's New York hush money case, in which he was convicted on more than 30 counts and is scheduled for sentencing later this month.

Judge Juan Merchan is still in the process of ruling on presidential immunity claims raised by Trump, and the obvious logistical and practical hurdles of potentially jailing or imposing any sanctions at all on a soon-to-be sitting president may well cause the matter to be dropped altogether even before an appeal is initiated.

Civil cases in which Trump has been ordered to pay vast sums of money may also be subject to delay in the execution of any judgments, with the bottom line being that, aside from any extraordinary legal shenanigans or novel theories designed to steal justice from the president-elect, Trump may well assume the presidency utterly unbothered by the legal onslaught that once seemed insurmountable.