Regardless of what verdict the jurors in New York City render in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s contrived prosecution of former President Donald Trump, the lack of interest in the trial may turn it into a major asset for the former president.

As the jury in the trial continues its deliberations, the rest of the country is continuing on as though nothing is happening. A poll from early May showed that a majority of the country is not following the former president’s trial, and a more recent poll indicates that voters are unlikely to shift their votes away from Trump if he is convicted.

It all adds up to this: Bragg’s politically motivated prosecution of an alleged misdemeanor that was incredulously upgraded to a felony on dubious legal grounds is the show trial of the century that no one wanted, aside from the most ardent partisans.

The lack of public interest is a boon for Trump. The trial is serving two purposes: It is crowding President Joe Biden out of public headlines as cable news networks breathlessly report on every single note the jury passes to the partisan judge overseeing the case, while simultaneously exhausting the public and discouraging them from engaging with media about the case.

The second part is key. Trump is the victim of a political prosecution the likes of which are typically only seen in totalitarian regimes. However, a majority of people still maintain blind faith in the judicial system and believe that prosecutors and judges act in good faith and that juries do not have ulterior motives to convict a defendant. In other words, there are too many people who will believe that Trump was convicted because he actually committed a crime, not because he was the victim of a malignant prosecution.

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But since those same people are disengaged from the trial and its proceedings, Trump will be better poised to paint the prosecution as politically motivated once those disengaged voters become more engaged in the weeks before the November election.

And if polling of the presidential race is any indication, those same voters are poised to send Trump back to the White House in a loud rebuke of the lawfare campaign that saddled the country with a salacious show trial that nobody wanted.