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Drip, Drip, Drip until Trump Drowns.
Sooner or later, you just knew it was going to happen. One of the 2024 GOP hopefuls would start sayi9ng out loud what they are all saying to themselves, which is — when is Trump going to go away?
But of course, you don’t come right out and tell him to quit. You begin by raising some ‘concerns’ about his presence in the 2024 race. And then when the volume of concerns starts to approach a real loud pitch, then the knives start to come out, the head is severed from the body so to speak, and to all intents and purposes politically speaking, Trump is as good as dead.
First we had Chris Christie last week on CNN, who said that Trump’s behavior was ‘inexcusable.’ Then yesterday, Mike Pence told the Wall Street Journal that he wouldn’t defend the ‘very serious allegations’ made against Trump.
And last night, when Trump showed up at his Bedminster club and made an angry, defiant public statement about the indictment, the only network which carried the speech live was Fox. And the bottom line is that Trump may still get nominated with support from Fox viewers, but that population isn’t enough to get him across the national finish line on November 5th of next year.
Trump’s biggest problem is not the fact that he took secret documents home when he left D.C. in 2021. It was that such documents may contain information…