Although the trial of former US President Donald Trump is expected to last a long time, it – according to political observers – can achieve several political gains for him, perhaps the most prominent of which is that it has brought him back strongly to the forefront of American events, and opinion polls have shown him leading the list of Republican candidates for the presidential elections. scheduled for 2024, with a large difference from his closest competitors, the governor of Florida, and even forced his Republican opponents to defend him, led by Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who voted twice to impeach Trump, as he questioned the trial, stressing that it “sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and harms public confidence.” in the American judicial system.
Hence, the possibility of Trump returning to the White House as president of the United States has become a strongly mooted scenario even if he is convicted before the court, which he describes as politicized and illegal.
The gains were not limited to this point, but rather reached the popular level, according to the latest opinion polls, in addition to the influx of financial donations to his campaign, which succeeded in collecting more than $ 10 million, according to what Bloomberg Agency announced.
Thus, the trial and accusations against the former president gave him great sympathy, especially among his popular base, for whom the events of the storming of the Capitol building, and the way to deal with the Corona pandemic, caused him to lose the bulk of it.