Where’s Donald?

Maybe I’m looking at the wrong media, but all of a sudden I get the clear impression that Donald Trump’s 2024 Presidential campaign has slowed down, if not stopped altogether. In February, Trump appeared at 9 public events. In March he appeared at 3 events, one of which was an event in Dayton, OH which didn’t promote him at all and so far in April he’s listed one event.

Now, granted, February was still primary season which Trump managed to wrap up in strong terms. The presumptive GOP nominee needed to secure 1,215 delegates from primary and caucus events and Trump ended up with 1,686 delegates who are more or less pledged to vote for his nomination when the GOP holds its 2024 convention in July.

On the other hand, Trump’s ‘hush money’ criminal case is set to open in New York on April 15 and the Florida trial of Trump for stealing the classified documents and stashing them in a Mar-a-Lago toilet is still set to begin on July 8th, which is a week before the GOP convention in Milwaukee kicks off.

Both of these trials, incidentally, involve criminal charges against Trump. And if he is found guilty, the penalties cannot be satisfied just by paying some fine. So, if the Supreme Court doesn’t give Trump an immunity against all the legal slings and arrows that he’s trying to duck, the GOP convention delegates could find themselves nominating a candidate who’s on his way to…