Meijer is a former U.S. representative from Michigan — former, because he voted to impeach Trump in the second go-around, a Republican crime far worse than foreign extortion or sedition. And he could be right.
This indictment is a billion dollar gift-in-kind from Democrats to Trump’s ‘24 campaign.
— Peter Meijer (@RepMeijer) March 18, 2023
Note, however, that "this indictment" is a minor one compared to three others — one state, two federal. By itself, a hush-money trial is unlikely to stir much anti-Trump passion. If it incenses and motivates anyone, it's more likely to do so among the Trumpers. About that, Meijer is probably correct.
But then consider the cumulative effect on the electoral mind of up to three more, and separate, indictments.
One: Trump is looking at a Georgia state trial for having criminally interfered with a presidential election — which he did on tape. It's nearly impossible to conceive how any jury would acquit in such a flagrant offense.
Two: Trump is looking at a federal trial involving a conspicuous cluster of criminal activity, from the mishandling and destroying of classified documents to obstructing justice to violating the Espionage Act.
Three: Trump is looking at a federal trial of his heavily witnessed, 2020 and 2021 insurrectionist crimes, from "aiding and comforting" a violent mob at the Capitol Building to obstructing a congressional proceeding to conspiring to make false statements to a government agency to conspiring to defraud the United States.
The whole, here, being greater than the sum of its parts. And that, in the electoral mind, would likely weaken what I assume is Meijer's more general point. The ludicrous, Trump-peddled fabrication that four criminal indictments, from state to federal, were all "politically motivated" by radical Marxist prosecutors would have even Steve Bannon rolling his eyes.