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Matthew Cranston

Trump indictment to supercharge his White House campaign

Trump is going to get a bump in the polls from this indictment. Why? Because this is America.

Washington | Bill Clinton enjoyed his highest support as president just as Congress debated whether to impeach him in 1999 for an affair with an intern in the Oval Office. Clinton’s polling stayed strong for the rest of his presidency.

In other words, Americans just don’t give a damn about their presidents’ sex lives – and there is a long, long line of examples to choose from.

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Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent.

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