Is the 2024 Campaign Over for Trump?

It was exactly a year ago that Trump showed up in a downtown Manhattan courthouse to be arraigned for what is being called the ‘hush money’ scheme and for which he is on trial right now.

When he appeared last year, he drew a big crowd both of supporters and protestors, the former group including Marjorie Taylor Greene, who came up all the way from Georgia to start her own campaign to be on the 2024 ticket as V.P.

The crowd outside the courthouse also included George Santos, who had a few choice words to say about how the media was treating his brief foray into electoral politics and a quick media stop by Rudy Giuliani’s son Andrew, whose presence in the political arena was even briefer than Santos’ political career.

But the point is that when Trump went anywhere a year ago, the media followed and so did the crowds.

That was then, this is now. And now when Trump showed up for the opening day of his trial last week, maybe there were 50 pro-Trump and anti-Trump onlookers milling about outside the courthouse, the media reps outnumbering the crowd.

And this meager turnout was notwithstanding the fact that Trump had sent out a fundraising email to the entire MAGA universe over the weekend which promised that ‘all Hell will break loose,’ when the trial opened last Monday.