Using a possible 'technicality' to nix the electoral chances of a candidate - and even send him to jail - is not novel to the US. But to add unaccountable campaign spend (for 'hush money') to a longer, more serious list of offences dilutes those very bigger charges against the man - electoral fraud, and his purported role in the storming of Capitol Hill by Trump supporters. It also shows his detractors in a desperate, petty light.