Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Nevada last October. The former president has repeatedly cast himself as a victim of political persecution by a corrupt judicial system taking orders from the Biden administration. Photograph: Bridget Bennett/The New York Times Donald Trump suffered a new legal blow on Tuesday when he was indicted on federal charges connected to his effort to overturn the result of the 2020 US presidential election. But even as the criminal proceedings against him pile up, consuming his bid for a new term in the White House, the former president is betting that he...