“The hush money trial was never going to be good for Trump, but the first week in court proved just how disruptive and damaging it will be for his 2024 bid,” the Daily Beast reports.
Said GOP strategist Alex Conant: “I had sort of underestimated just the giant time-suck this is going to be for him as a candidate.”
He added: “He could be raising six, seven figures pretty regularly at major-dollar events around the country at this point. That’s literally what Biden is doing. So Trump’s fundraisers are probably frustrated that because he’s in New York, they can’t schedule that stuff.”
