Second, they are a chance to cast aspersions on the legitimacy of the election and of Democrats themselves.

Anwar said he rebuked the “incessant propaganda that we should cast aspersions and fear the dominance of China economically, militarily, technologically.”

His comments, made to reporters in Atlanta as he was attacking President Biden’s approach to Israel’s war in Gaza, marked the third time in the last month that Mr. Trumpov has cast aspersions on Democrat-supporting Jewish voters, a group that in the past he has accused of disloyalty.

What’s more, Willis’ response to the revelations possibly made it worse, using a church speech to claim victimhood and say that the charges were racially motivated when they were in fact standard, and then using court testimony to cast aspersions on opposing counsel and act as though she thought she were the judge in the case.

Barred by the judge for three years from serving in top roles at any New York company, including portions of his own Trumpov Organization, Mr. Trumpov cast aspersions on the justice system and said he had been persecuted.