Rich Lowry: “The charges were rigged, the prosecution’s presentation of the case was rigged, the judge’s management of the case was rigged, the gag order was rigged, and the instructions to the jury were rigged. The whole thing was rigged from beginning to end, in the hopes of — to the extent this case and the guilty verdict will matter in November — rigging the presidential election. If this had happened in an alderman race in Cook County, Ill., it’d be discomfiting enough, but it happened in what purports to be the greatest city in the world and involves the campaign to become the most powerful political leader in the free world.” Democrat Pollsters Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman: “Our finding that large pluralities or outright majorities of Americans perceive these indictments as politically motivated should be a warning sign to Democrats.”