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Politics
Matthew Chapman

Is Trump running to dodge prosecution?

On Friday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman argued that former President Donald Trump sees his 2024 presidential campaign as a "shield" against indictment — even as he appears to barely put effort into his bid to retake the White House.

This comes as the former president faces a number of criminal investigations, including special counsel Jack Smith's probe into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the stash of classified documents recovered by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago, and a state-based electoral criminal investigation in Georgia. It also comes as the House January 6 Committee is poised to vote on a criminal referral for Trump on two charges to the Justice Department.

"Let me get Maggie to weigh in on how this is all impacted on the Trump's presidential campaign announcement," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "It has gotten off to a rather lackluster start."

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