Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces four criminal indictments: one in Florida over his handling of classified government documents after he left office, another in Washington for trying to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election, another in New York relating to his payment of hush money to a porn actress in the run-up to the 2016 election and an indictment in Georgia for conspiring to overturn the presidential election results in that state. In total, Trump has been indicted for committing 91 felonies.

There is no evidence, however, that these indictments are weakening Trump’s support. To the contrary, with the issuance of each indictment his popularity as measured by public opinion polls has gone up. There are several reasons.

One is that hardcore Trump supporters are convinced that the indictments are just further evidence of how far the Democratic Party is prepared to go to use the Justice Department, the FBI and other organs of the “deep state” against Trump. To his supporters the extensive media reporting about Trump’s legal troubles is nothing other than proof of the mainstream media’s hostility toward the former president.